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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
. BEHIND THE SCENES
M WAsHll GTON :
2 BY Peter gDSoN

? ~ PETER EDSoN
Dolly Monitor WsshlnStes
covsespoadent
WASHINGTON on, the
life Of q member Of the new
Notionoi Defense Mediation
6oc,d is not q merry one as the
IL men and most Of their !
oIternotes have discovered.
When the board first met,
q week otter II wos appointed,
it conducted routine oroonizo-
ton and then optimisticolly
adjourned for two weeks and
two days, voting for the first
cose to be certified to II by the
Labor Department.
Then the members scot
tered to their reeulor jobs, ond
since the Presidents order
specified that they were to oct
SIS q doy. plus expenses while
octuolly on the job, they
thought they were off the poy-
roll. lnsteod. they've all work.
ed every day including Sum-
days and at such hours as
would bring the blush Of
shame to any advocate Of the
eieht-hour doy. or even the II
or Is hour day.
LEFT WITH
JANlToRS
On the week end thot they
tackled the AIIis- Chalmers
case. their first session ran
through to ] q. m. Sunday
morning and except for scrub
women and ionitors, they were
practically the only occupants
Of the big Social Security
building which is O. p. NJ
Ordnance headquarters.
The neeotiotors nearly cav
ed in, though the negotiations
fortunately didn't ond the bos-
is for agreement wos reached
in q hours Of dickerine. Then,
otter the terms were onnounc-
ed Sunday night, the enploye
representatives, we're + ow n
back to Milwaukee by q navy
transport plane, SO thot the
agreement could be rotified
without deloy.
The small stoff includes
Ernest P. Marsh, loaned by
the Cancellation Service as
temporary executive seeretory,
the good Mrs. Abbott who is
choirnnon Dykstro's secretary,
q press relations man and q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
9A svveA -

George Raft now and Jackie
Coogan's in the army medical
corps. but their wedding in 1897
was q horrible sample Of studio
arranged publicity. During the
engagement, they made a com.
bined vaudeville tour that ad.
vertised young love as the main
stage attraction, and when Miss
Cradle lost her diamond ring. IL
was turned into q national Gala.
nifty.
At the wedding, eight city and
four studio police officers hand
led the mob, held off by ropes;
IL still photographers, four
newsreel men and hundreds of
candid camera fans preserved
the scene from all angles, and
the couple, with frozen, tired
grins, posed for scores of pic
lures before the ceremony.
The supply of rice ran out be-
fore the newsreels finished grind
ing and a studio electrician was
rushed to a store for more. Lat
err, the item "Rice-15 cents"
was duly entered on the Para
mount publicity expense ac-
count.
A studio publicist, recalling
the affair said, II never felt SO
sorry for anybody in my life.
Betty had cut the cake before all
the cameramen got to the house,
so she had to do retakes. It was
Cut another slice, Betty
stand behind the cake. now
kiss her, Jackie put a piece
OF cake in her mouth cut an
other kiss smile > un-
til she finally said to me, Get
people out of here, or I'll
scream! Whose wedding Is this,
anyway"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11

they can't face the unnatural
publicity.
Not much more than q year
ago, I asked a number Of the un-
attached young actresses. what
kind of weddings they wanted.
Arleen Whelan and Nancy Kelly
both voted enthusiastically for
church ceremonies and w hite
wells; this year, both eloped.
without even any members Of
their families there to wish them
good luck.
Miss Durbin will get plenty of
encouragement and cooperation
on her no-publicity stand from
at least one of her bridesmaids,
Anne Shirley. When Miss Shir-
ley and John Payne planned to
wed, their studios persuaded
them to postpone it 50 they could
play up the romance. Finally,
they got reluctant permission
to marry but there were as many
photographers as guests at the
ceremony, and care was taken to
have it on Sunday so that Mon
day morning papers, scarce on
news, could give it plenty of
space.
GAABLE-COOGAN
WEDDING A RIOT
Betty CRADLES steady dating
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

1920, and 1t. D. Hyatt, class of
1921. Both these officers had re-
tired, but are now back on duty.
In discussing the following
hand l made the remark, "You
were certainly lucky to bag that
one" whereby I found out that
the Annapolis year book IS re-
ferred to as the lucky bag" Sc
I'll call this the lucky bag
hand.
East's rather unort h O d O X
opening lead proved to be the
Killer. West took his ace OF
spades and returned q spade for
East to ruff.
Now East should have led the
king of clubs, to clear his club
trick before declsrer could es-
tablish dummy's diamond tricks.
Declarer would then have no
way to avoid the loss Of two
more tricks.
Instead, East led q diamond,
forcing out Vests ace. West re-
turned another spade, bat to his
disgust East had 90 more trumps.
Declarer Of course picked up
Vests trumps and cashed ten
ten tricke.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
. Hieh|iehts From
The Latest Books q

Robert Nthan wrote = mem.
orable story in Portrait Of 'Jen-
ME" Nov he repeats with "They
Went Out Together" (Knopf, $2)
proving that the suffering, ter
ror and courage of wars refu-
gees are timeless and placeless.
Paul, his mother and his sis
ter, Marie Rose, make up just
one of many families forced to
evacuate their homes as war
swirls around them. They might
be French; they might be Eng
lish; they might even be Amer
leans, and certainly the names of
towns have definite American
sound. They are driven out into
the highway, forced to leave
priced possessions. Enemy air
planes strafe them; rushin 9
army trucks, heavy guns slow
their flight. They are hungry,
cold, frightened.
There is Sylvie, struggling on
alone, who joins them. Paul
struggles manfully to provide
food; Sylvie steals potatoes.
They escape, but in the terror
of that escape is born a courage
and a hate that Paul puts into
boyish words, addressed to an
enemy aviator whose bomb has
wounded Slyvie:
"You up there, he thought,
talking to the men in the sky,
you think you're 50 smart. You
think you're smart because you
60 around hurting people 50
they'll do what you want. Well,
they won't; they won't ever do it..
Even If it was something ! want
ed to do, I wouldn't do it now
If you told me to. ! wouldn't
ever do anything you told me-,
$50 what good have you done?
haven't got home any more
I haven't got Nom, and now
you've done this too. You think
I won't think about it when I
grow up. You. think I'm going
to forget it?
maybe some kids will forget
for q while. But they'll remem-
Der again; and they'll 60 to your
country. and burn 1t down, like
you did to ours. So that's all the
good you've done. You weren't
50 smart"
Translated into B afghan,
French, Czech, Polish, Norweg-
ian or half q dozen other Ian
guages Pauls words should
make interesting reading for
Hitler and Mussolini. And they
might have been said by any one
of thousands of British lads who
look up at airplanes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
ONE HUNDRED FAITHFUL DAYS.

When Napoleon landed at Cannes,
otter escape from his island exile on
EIbo. one hundreds days stretched be-
fore him during which the whole future
fote of Europe trembled in the boil
once
From March 20 to June 20 Of the
year 1915. from ChorIeroi to Waterloo
and it's aftermath, one hundred days
passed. In the autumn, lonely figure
poced the deck Of His Mojestys Ship
Bellerphon, outward bound for bleak
St. Helena.
Such q summer may lie before
Europe this year. John D. Bieoers, pro-
duction chief of the Office Of Produc-
ton Management, was very much in
eornest when he told the House Mill
tory Affairs Committee that for the
United Stotes, too, the next hundred
days are vitoIIy important We are just
about one hundred doys away from the
stort Of the moss production flow Of
many important defense items. he sold.
Eventually, we shall have plenty Of
shells, plenty Of Tanks, plenty Of planes.
But it is now. during the next hundred
days. that they ore needed. 1t is now
that the certain assurance that they
will be produced on schedule is needed
no less urgently.
During these coming hundred days,
the United Stotes, by the united will Of
it's people, Numerically determined
wants exactly what Bieoers colled for:
Work, sacrifice, unselfishness, eenu-
inc national unity" IL believe" he
said, "thot if everyone really under
stood the importance Of national de-
Tense, seIfishness is the basis Of most
Of our problems.
American workmen and American
employers are intelligent, free men.
Surely it must be plain to both thot
their future is bound up completely
with the proposition that the American
republic con, must, and will carry out
the tosk it hos set itself - the task Of
turning out as fost as is humanity
possible he tools Of war for the defense
Of those who are now brovely graphing
with aggression, tools Of war for the
ultimate defense Of the republic.
Thot common sense view will, we
Gre sure, at length govern employers
Wild nsoy have "hoorded" defense mo-
terioIs beyond need, who may have
resisted social trends, who may have
undertaken tordiIy their defense as
sienments 1t will govern labor leaders
and workmen who may have placed or
eonizotionoI rivoIries, political Zines"
or fear of some vogue future disod-
vantage ahead Of present production.
The coming hundred days will tell
whether the United Stotes can still do
the Job. We have the uttermost faith
thot she can, and will.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
STORIES
. IN STAMPS
France Nay Get Food
From African Colonies
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03yXSNo0 1sFsks

WHILE hunger stalks unoccu-
w pied France, officials Of the
Vichy government eye abundant
supplies in French North Africa,
consider armed conveys to bring
food 400 miles across the British
patroled Mediterranean. Record
crops have given Morocco, Tunis
and Algeria ample surpluses Of
wheat, wine. fruits, vegetables.
Getting them past the blockade Is
Frances problem.
Typical OF many Moroccan
cities Is Sefrou, pictured on the
stamp above. Serious people are
not worrying about ration cards.
French North Africa has long
been IN important source Of food
for the mother country. During
World War I, with The Allies In
control Of the Mediterranean, .
bridge Of ships carried vast guam
titles Of supplies from Africa to
Europe. Besides grains. hsh and
fruits, the three colonies also sent
pre-war France hides, WOOL CO..
ton phesphstes end HetolA
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
, SO THEY SAY

Honor requires us to UNDER
take nothing against our for
mer allies.
Marshal Petain, chief of the
French state.
I don't believe, in q demo.
cracy. In forcing anybody to do
anything until we have exhaust
ed oil means Of persuasion. :.
John D. Biggers, production
chief. OPM.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
. BARBS

British, Greeks, Germans, and
Yugoslavs all report advances
but we still don't think the
world is moving forward.
1t would be nice IL love was
as easy to keep as it is to make.
.
u. S. prefers that newspapers
keep mum about where British
vessels in American waters are
going. The idea being to keep
them from going down.
Advance tip-it soon will be
time for you to keep your An
gers out of the electric fan.
.
Many a king who once was
the toast of millions has been
badly burned.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
BY VIM. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Annapolis certainly has It's
share of championship tourna-
ments. They hav. an inter-de-
partment team-of-f our contest
which was won in 1910 by the
English department There is the
Naval Officers Club Pair Cham
pionship which was won last
year by 1t. II. c. Rust, class OF
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
HOLY WEEK. 1874,

AZ if to underline contrast Hitler
chose Holy Week to launch his assault
"a two more countries. On the very
polr Sunday which marks the doy
when the Prince Of Peoce entered Jer-
usoIen riding humbly on the hunnbest
Of beasts Of burden. Killers ormed men
rode ocross the borders Of Yugoslov'o
and Greece mounted on the most mod
ern Of flesh destroying machines.
During thot climoctic week when
Jesus foced His ordeal, and trod the
road to Golootho, twenty additional
millions Of people in 94l ore o|so Ploe-
ed on the road that leads to the place
Of the skull, .foce to foce with the cru
eifixion by Shell, bomb ond fire thot is
war.
The officioI Nozi explanation OF
this sounds very like the words thot
were spoken by Phorisees in that other
Holy Week; they ring hoIiowly. con-
vince no one. Yuooslovio is invaded be-
couse II refused to allow its roods and
facilities to be used as an ovenue OF at
tock on friendly neiehbor Greece is
invoded because. defending itself from
an ItoIion ottock which bod not even
Phorisoicoi justification, it welcomed
friendly aid to help fend off thot Of
tack.
So q Nozi protestotion Of peaceful
intent goes with the invosions, soylng
in words like those Of the Phorisees,
"t3od ttuFysyieided to our every request
thsysx u hot have been invaded; we
visited only peoce, so long os every
thino We .osked wos turned over to US.
in q peoceful way. But, of course. our
polite Tequest for peaceful submer9-
ence Of The national existence OF these
people being refusd, we have no alter
notivs but war"
Such choice is no choice; the gum
man who sticks you UP in the street
with Q pistol offers you peoce under
the same circumstances. You have
peace under the same circumstances.
You have peoee if you stond ond de-
liver. II you exercise your 0od-glven
right to hold fost to your own, you die.
let US not forget thot what died
during the original Holy Week SO long
600 was again Reconsideration the
whole story is one Of the triumph OF life
over deoth. So It may be that those
countries which ore being led this Holy
Week down to the place Of the skull
nnoy yet live again.
We hove foith that the way Of life
will yet triumph over the way Of deoth.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
BY LUCE NEVILLE

BY LUCE NEVILLE
NEA Service staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD-An engraved
white card says that MIR. and
Mrs. James Allen Durbin re-
quest the honor of my presence
at the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Deanna, to MIR. Vaughn Aus
tin Paul, on Friday, the 18th
of April at half past eight o'clock
in the evening, at the Wiltshire
Methodist Episcopal Church. A
smaller card says the reception
will follow at the Beverly Will
shire Hotel.
That's just about as much as
anybody in Hollywood, includ-
ing her studio-knows about
Miss Durbin's wedding details.
Her trouSseau has been designed
by Universals Vera West, who
has dressed the star since she
was a plump 14-year-old, and
the seamstresses are studio ward
robe women-all close-mouthed
friends who aren't handing out
information or swatches of ma
terial. There won't be any photos
until the morning of the 18th
and none of the bridal gown it.
self until the ceremony.
Miss Durbin, who always has
been agreeable about interviews
and posing, and was pretty nice
about discussing her engage
ment has said firmly that this
is one wedding that won't be
movie-publicity holiday. I'm
all for it and l don't blame her
a doggone bit.
BANS
BALLYHOO
Looking back over some of
the embarrassing, blurby bally-
hoo that Hollywood brides have
endured, it's no wonder that so
many run out of town. Not that
they just want justice of the
peace to say the do you's?" or
have dreary service in some
small town, but they're cheated
out of the Big Moment with or
ange-blossom trimmings because
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
UNIFORM RESPECT FOR
THE UNIFORM

Sooner or later some boiled shirt
who is also stuffed shirt was bound
to do this. A soldier bearing sereeont's
chevrons oppeored in the so-very-smort
cote Of q fashionable Washington hotel
the other doy with his best girl, and the
boiIed-stuffed shirt refused to serve
him.
One would have thought that this
LESSON hod been learned during the
svyorid War; that no place is too good
~ The weorers Of Uncle SONS khaki.
Even the German army has learned thot
iosson. Prussion distinctions between
officers ond men in public civilian
pieces have been eliminated in Ger
nlnry iono 900. Yet apparently few
nv 1osout4of- doters have not learn
III ppily this soldiers command
III ~ 1tol, l6or1ino Of the discrimino-
3 GontDef NJ Uniform, went down to
NJ roised coin. securing on
E I'D q promise never to do it
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
Five Years Ago Today

A weeks postponement was
granted in Circuit Court Mon
day in the suit of the Macomh
County Trust company asking
that q receiver be appointed for
the Leader Press company.
The Plain Dirt Gardener,
Harry r. OBrien, will speak in
Mount Clemens next Monday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
40 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Lady Woodmen Will give
a ball at the Chamber q Com
merce hall Easter Monday.
Prof. Vollery il home Tor the
summer after spending Z win
ter in Pittsburgh. -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11

Joseph T.. Downing 6pys the
Rafter property on Miller street.
Price q, 400.
Peter. Dahm, accepts Q posi-.
ton in the Mt. Clemens Saw.
ings Bank.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

II there n any further ecsuse
for trouble between Romeo and
Nc Clemens, let II Be brought
up and { ought out. And after
that let ~ have peace.
lliHha1on goes Republican by
between 80 and u thousand ma
ioelty. Good enough for . spring
o1oct1o0. .a,.1
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

City Commissioner Thomas
G.. Longstaff is still nursing .
tender hand from congratulations
on his 2,548 votes in Mondays
primary.
Girl Scouts will celebrate Ar
Dor Day April IL by planting .
tree at Camp Rotary. 4
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Lncie Neville Is pinch-hifting
for Paul Hdrrison, n0W touring
army camps and defense indus
tries.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
LEADERS
DIVIDED

Wnetner concessions such
as these could be obtoined
from lobor todoy is extremely
doubtful, II il come to q. show
d own. Official Washington
would probably split rio 1T
down the middle. ~.
Congress apparently would
be in decided favor Of limit
ing the powers of unions for
the duration Of the emergency.
The administrative side Of gov
eminent, insotor as It hos
shown its hand, fovors riding
on labor law and labor odmin-
istrotiQn as now constituted.
In other words. keep the So
coIled Wagner act, the fair
labor standards law, woqes and
hours guarantees, N. L. r. B.
ond the existing machinery Of
the Labor Department, includ-
ing Cancellation Service back.
ed by the Notionol Defense
Mediation Board.
In the Lost war, there we're
only three real challenges Of
the old War Labor Boord's
powers. Western Union. de-
cIinino to comply with aboard
orcer thot it Geese discrimino-
tiN, against union men, was
ordered taken over by the
Postoffiee Department for the
durotion, through O presiden-
tiol decree. The Bridgeport
eose and Smith 9 Wesson
case. in which employees in
the former and employers in
the latter refused to obide by
board decisions, were likewise
Threatened with government
seizure and operotion. All
three complied with the board
before the orders could be put
into effect.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11

nies are citizens ornjes.
N . cruss-sect ton Of our
= hcpe thot thfs lore cose
hot nsver o0oin do we
plope ovroootjn0 to
a. dibcfimin-
= I'M orts officers or
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-11
few stenoorophsrs recruited
from %. P M. -, ~.

few stsnoorophers recruited
from O. p. IA. -.
As the full boord met April
10. for It's first regular session
offended by The entire. msrn-
bership Il therefore had behind
It Two weeks Of strenuous ex-
perience in which three and
tour-member panels bod took
led holt q dozen importont
coses. but il still bod no poll
ey. To odopt thot policy and
formulate its rules Of proceed
ure were the two things the
board hoped would come out
OF this meetino-if II could
just find time off from its
practice long enough to estob..
lish principles. Its Two rules
now ore: Cd Go beck to work.
~. Come to Washington and
tolk IL over.
In the Lost war, IN oddltion
to. a National War Labor
Boord. poroIIelino the present
Notionol Defense Mediation
Boord, there wos q War lobor
Policies Board. This board set
up stondords Of working con-
ditions. like the 8-hour doy,
many of which ore now occept-
ed provisions Of existing. Iobor
law. In return for these ouor-
ontees in the lost war; or
eonized labor ogreed that
there should be no strikes dur.
ing the war, and did not ex-
tend oroonizotionol activities
to plants where there were no
unions.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-31
Social and Personal

Mrs abeIa Stone and Mrs Gonzales called
No. because of the illness
mother, Mrs. Gregory
The NeghbOrhOOd Triangle Club newly formed Tuesday
with membership of Of the Sumner Field
elected follows Mrs Katherine Nash PRESIDENT Marjorie
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-31
Her Boy Thursday
Keeps Her Posted

Keeps "Inquisitive Sal" informed
on the doings around the two
towns!
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methods do their work - AND
WITH AMAZING SUCCESS!
After only a few days of con-
valegcing, my friend went back to
her daily duties not only with her
health fortified but with her beauty
improved too. Wise woman!
1t is, indeed, a simple and easy
prOcedure-it worked with excel
lent results for woman over forty
five, and it can do the same for you.
Frankly, the benefit accruing there
from far exceeds the amount Of eff
fort put into 1t.
Next time you are indispOsed to
the point of having to 90 to bed,
don't fret and fume because you
think you are wasting time, or be-
cause life at the moment Is tire
some and tedious. 1t needn't be II
you make good use Of 1t in trying
to improve upon your appearance I;
If you do the little things that make
for beauty and loneliness.
There are many ways of making
yourself attractive-they just take
time, that's all. So, when the op-
pOrtunity practically falls into your
lap, take advantage Of 1t.
I'm sure some of my readers can
add to my friends beauty plan and,
If so, I should like to hear from
them.
What are your beauty problems?
Write: Marie Downing, Larie4se
Beauty Bureau, 1909 LindeH
Blvd, St. Louis, Mo-, and she HH
be glad to anSYer them. Be
sure to enclose q Selt-dddressed,
stamped envelope.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-31
Projecting Around
The Project

Are you all erect" or are you
all wrong. The Mock Cabaret
sponsored by the Social and Recre-
alton Committee of Ward / last
Saturday evening at 1000 Dupont
was a grand success. Mines. Lii
liam Austin, Helen Bowen, Louise
Quarterman, Idella Grigsby, Har-
riet Renix, Dorothy Scott, Wayne
Stewart, Mary Louise Cannon,
Opal Stone, Mrs. Troup and Miss
Yvette Strader and others caught
ones eyes because they were look
ing plenty sharp!
Orchids to those who helped SO
faithfully and don't miss the next
one. Sol" Howard Brown, now
at Fort Cook, Nebraska, writes
back that the set-up is okey and
all is well.
Your bridge scores will indicate
whether or not your club deals in
"grand slams" in cards. Shake
speare said in his Midsummer
Nights Dream" that at is not
enough to speak, but to speak
true"
Keep up with the dance styles
and get hep to the Of-time. You
will soon find dancing a pleasure
again for it is sure death to Utter
bugging and it is lots of fun. You
are the loser when you do not at
tend the Tuesday night Study Club
on Consumers Coop. and Public
Speaking.
Mr.. Bert Slaughter let the flu
get him down but not out. Many
happy returns of the day to Mrs.
Grace Workout. If you are all
rect" we will see you Saturday
evening for dinner in the Social
Room and until we peep on more
people by projectin', pax vobiscum