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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07

n. Rureeight now can determine whether we are
Only intsnsifying the Ills md Notwithstanding we
IN hMpw havs existed Or whether we are looking
t1gus,d "A emergency 70 build better, safer,
happi6r, more prosperous nation.
NJ Clifford Townsend, OPM.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07
= BEHIND THE s EN MES
M WASHlf Go =

hes copoeity = loft for bust.
no9!-cs.usuol production for
civilian use. Al HE same Tins,
smployment GOES up, wooss
ore going Up, and there Is
Qveoter consumer demand.
Tho tendency Is for the prices
OF consumer goods to rise BE-
couse supply cant meet de-
mond.
This hos resulted in O NUM-
Der Of things. There hos bsen
q certoin on1ount Of scare ud--
vertising- telling people to
buy now because prices were
going UP or to order nov be-
couse there would b short
ooes loter. In an effort to
keep prices at present IevaIs.
quality hos in some cusss been
sacrificed and the product
cheopened, OF substitutes hove
been put into the product.
A dress thot fodes, q shirt
that shrinks, q sheet shot
splits, q $3.50 bIonkst thot
doesn',. keep YOU warm otter
il hos been woshed. This, as
Miss Hornet Elliott points out,
is o downword spiroT OF quoI-
ity and Il is as much to, b
suorded oaoinst as an tupword
spiroline Of price.
Here Is where the further
education of consumers comes
in and this is one Of the lines
that Miss EIIiott's consumer
division in the Leon Hendsr-
son Office Of Price Administro-
tion and Civilian Supply is at
tempting to strengthen.
Realizing thot housewives
can't tolk in terms Of eco
nomie theory, the Ionouooe in
the retailers educotion OF his
customers must be reduced to
understandable foetors. A l.
cent rise on a pound OF sugar
or q quart Of milk means more
to the housewife than q So
cent increase on shoes or q
$40 increase in the months
rent.
BRGAD
ECONOMICS
The economics in a loaf Of
breed is olso q tough one to
explain. The former gets less
than q cent for the wheat that
is in the loof which sells for
10 cents. Where does the
other 9 cents 90? Exploiting
that to the consumer would
help justify any increases, Il
and when necessary. Rstoil-
ers feel it IS g lock of under.
stondino Of the work Of. the
professors and distributors
that couses most Of the con-
fusion on price motters.
Another foctor is the labor
costs that enter into consumer
goods. The food industries say
that from IS to 70 per cent Of
the cost of q con Of beons or
any other food product 10 To-
Dor. Textile industries say that
ST per cent Of the increased
voIue Of q manufactured pro-
duct is lobor costs. Those ore
entirely reasonable and ur-
ovoidobIs but they have to b
appreciated by the consumer.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07

This conference emphasized
the foct fi,ot o majority Of re-
toiIers hove olreody odopted
the for-siohted policy that it
is to their advantage to keep
prices down, to prevent price
spirols. and furthermore to do
this as much as possible on q
voluntary, cooperative basis
without the !cenefit Of govern
ment control or government
price fixing.
This may not be the most
world shaking news to come
out Of Washington these dogs.
but as it hits TO million peo-
pie in the poeketbook, right
where they live, it is frou9ht
with significance at that, so
here il is.
Whot is happening Is that
as more and more Of the coun-
try's productive copocity is
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07
NOW 70 CATCH W

The entire United Stotes can breathe
A,ore costly now that the coal mines
dre g be reopened. Roilroods con be
s1ufe of running on full schedule; COM
n,tinities will not foee fuel rotioning;
best of ali, defense industries will have
coke for steel-mokino and cool for
bower.
II Everyone is grateful for the reason
cbleness finolly shown by the three
ndfties to the dispute in accepting the
President's plan for settlement. Vet the
sesposisibiljty for having kept 4OO. 600
n,sn Idle during % days at this cruleol
tine and having cromped even n'ornen-
tnrfly the production Of arms for Amer
lea ard BFitoin Is not q responsibility
oosljW dismissed.
Northern cool operators ore to blame
fos ~ having accepted the proposal Of
the United Mine Workers, mode we'll
hofcre HE old controct expired, for
euttinuous operation during ,neootio-
1i6n. They are to blame for apparently
331inQ the union to Place pressure on
ilieir southern competitors.
The union is to blame for roisi,g at
3llch q Eriticol time the issue Of crossing
nm southern woee differentioI which
Involves intricote questions Of freight
y1tet ond relotive living costs. They ore
~ blone for not being willing to 90
tex @ work in the northern mines
i)e the southern question was ironed
IN owners Of southern mines ore
s. lonhe for trying too odomontIy to
tftoin q lower wose level than othero
m 81 tbs country. They are to bIome
itino too long to offer even as
|i Nlops increoss as the northern
and for holding out 50 long
(trution.
10y pne would soy let blome
II the county simply b
i4cutss u 10dod We are
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07
!, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Lucie Neville Is pinch
ing for Paul Harrison. now
touring army camps and de-
Tense industries.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07

Soovo4 0Ooo:vS
WAsHlN6 ToN. Moy -
One SURE by-product OF the
current effort on the part Of
both business and govern
ment to keep prices from
Ginning out OF sight will b o
big odyonee in consumer cd
ucotion, O movement on the
port Of rstoilsrs and monufoc-
tursrs to tell customers exoct-
" whot's in their product and
why the price is what tits.
This foct stonds out as ore
conclusion resulting from De-
pertinent of Commerce con-
ference on consumer goods.
The conference was promoted
BY the Retailers Advisory
Committee, q business organ
ixotion which coIIed in oyer
400 representatives, Of 81
food, textile. clothing and
other trade associations to see
where business fits into the
government price control pro-
gram.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07

and that's the fourth shipment
of films which presumably are
now wowing the mermaids.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07

RS warm enough now 10 ~
your vest 10 patch your pants.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
TO HEAR A
NYE AGAINST WAR

Nye's first appearance in Harlem
and a vast turnout is expected.
John I. Flynn is-a well known
economist and a vigorous oppon-
ent of involving the United Stat.
es in foreign vars. He is one of
the country's outstanding orators
and is we'll known for his best-sell-
ing book: Country Squire in the
White House. Rev. A. Clayton
Powell, Jr., is the militant young
pastor of the largest congregation
in the country. j.. A. Rogers is
we'll known for his newspaper ar
ticles on the Ethiopian war and
for his numerous books on Negro
history.
Harlem has been chosen for the
opening of the campaign against
wal because of thevital interest
of Negroes everywhere in the cur
rent imperialist struggle.
George S. Schuyler of the edi-
torial staff of the Pittsburgh Cour-
Ter, and Business Manager of The
Crisis will preside.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22

BEFORE THE A OF
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
THROAT

. On Saturday night, March 18th
at about 500 p. m. Lucille Sum-
mers, 2511 Lake St, was cruelty
beaten by Charles Smith, an ac-
quaintance of hers who had been
~molesting her for some time.
The following is the story as
she related it to the Omaha Guide
reporter.
Il met him at Saint Johns Bap-
fist Church where I had been at
tending. Often he would follow
me to the car-line as | started for
home. He would call me on the
phone, but | would refuse to talk
to him. He had made threats
but | did not pay any attention to
them, thinking that he did not
mean them. His attentions became
so annoying that l left that church
in order to avoid him. Somehow
he found where | lived and on Sat
urday night he called me on the
phone. l had told Mrs. Rogers,
with whom | stayed) that when
any man called me that I did not
want to talk with him. When he
called l refused to talk to him."
At about 500 o'clock of the
same evening, | left my home to go
to the grocery store at oath and
Lake SITS, | thought l had seer
him pass, and | crossed the street.
in front of the house thinking the
darkness would keep him from
seeing me. When | knew anything
he had me He asked, "Why didn't
you talk to me when | called
you?" l told him that | didn't
wont to talk to him and asked him
why he kept calling me and why
he kept ~bothering me. He hit me
over the head with his cane and
knocked me to the ground. When
] tried to get up, he hit me again,
but somehow l managed to get up
ond | ran across the street to tine
house in back of mine (2514 Frs
kline St. and fell up on the porch.
He kept hitting me with the cane
but | raised by arm to shield my
face. My feet were hanging off
the porch and my head was on It.
He had a knife then, and I could
tell that he was trying to reach
my throat. | raised my, arm, and
he cut it. Somehow | managed to
push him off, and l got up and
ran around to the front porch. He
ran off, I don't know where. That's
all ! remember until | catne home
from Nicholas Sem hospital where
the ambulance took me-"
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22

On Monday night, March %,
there will be a benefit dance held
for Vernon Brown, Tech Hi athlete
who was injured October 8, 1910,
while practicing football at Tech.
1t will give the Negro citizens Of
Omaha a chance to help this brave
boy. The proceeds of this dance
will all be used for Vernie's well
fare. Last Monday night there
was a dance held in his honor at
the Central Club. These dances
are under the sponsorship of some
of Omaha's distinguished citizens.
Some of the sponsors are Skip
Palrang, Creighton u Football
coach, Clitron Bronze a well known
attorney, Joe ~Stolinski, County As
SCISSOR and Bert Murphy, automo-
bile dealer.
Vernon has been bedridden since
his misfortune, but his spirit is un-
daunted. He has the mental
strength to endure this suffering
with patience and courage. Any
n who would walk into his room
at 2616 Burdette, will at once feel
sad to look at him lying in his bed
but after hearing him talk, they
will feel astonished at the courage
and determination he has. Vernon
a now raise his left arm between
four and six inches, and movement
seems to be coming in his right
arm too. He is improving fast,
but will have to remain in bed for
sometime. This doesn't bother
CONTINUED on pageg p
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22

New York, N. Y.--March II =
The opening un in a new campaign
against involving the United
States in foreign wars will be fir
ed Friday night at the Golden
Gate Ballroom in Harlem by Sem
ator Gerald P. Nye of North Da-
kato, and John T. Flynn, Chair
man of the Keep America Out of
War Committee. Other speakers
viii lbe Rev. A. Clayton Powell, il.
pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church and j. A. Rogers, noted
historian. The meeting is spon-
sortd by the Negroes Against War
Committee.
Senator Nye has been long notr
ed for his consistent campaigning
for the rights of the common man,
and his unalterable opposition to
the armament profiteers and wal
mongering imperialists. He is es-
pecially famous for his conduct of
the investigation in to the munit-
ions trust and its international
ramifications. He has been in the
forefront of the fight to keep A
merica out of the present a He
and Senator Wheeler led the fight
against the so-called Lease-Lend
Bill which forced important am
endments to it. This is Senator
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
ROBERT LAFAYETTE ALLEN
FORMER WELL KNOWN
OMAHAN, PASSES

Robert Lafayette Allen, a form
er resident of Omaha and who has
of late resided in Langston, Okla,
passed away on Monday, March II.
He leaves to mourn his loss, four
daughters, Alma, Hallot, Louise
and Bonnie Jean, three sons, Clar-
ence of Omaha, and Frank and Ar
thur of st. Paul, MINI. He also
leaves behind two brothers Arthur
Allen of Omaha and Ambrose AL
len of Detroit, Mich; Sisters Lou
Use, Katie, Villa and a host of 9th
er relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held on
Thursday of this week at Lang
ston, Oklahoma.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
A. f. OF l.. PRESIDENT TO
ADDRESS COLORED FIREMEN

Mr.. William Green, President OF
the American Federation of Labor
will address the Colored Firemen's
Gonference to be held at the Gar
nett Patterson Junior High school
in Washington, d. c., Friday ever
ing, March 28th, it was announced
at the Western Headquarters of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Proters, 1921 Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, by A. Philip Randolph.
international President.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
Sick Woman Dies AtPoIice Sta.
9Sick Woman Taken To The Police
Station When She Should Have
Been Taken To A Hospital
What the Records States

STATION Nnen one Should Have
Been Taken To A Hospital
What the Records States
Abenda Flowers, 35, 1912 North
Goth ST., who was found lying on
the Kellom school grounds Sun
day morning, died at the Central
Police Station at $40 a. m.
A call was received at the Sta
ton on Sunday morning at about
GLIB a. m. stating that a woman
apparently drunk, was lying on
the school ground. The person
calling did not give their name. A
police car arrived at the scene
shortly after 6:15 and the woman
was taken to the police station and
booked as Drunk" Officers not
ed the woman breathing heavily
and called a doctor. When he ar
rived at $40 a. M, he pronounced
the woman dead. The body was
removed to Myers mortuary at the
request of the family.
Mrs. Flowers had suffered with
epileptic fits, and had been confin-
ed to the County hospital several
times, and according to relati YES
her fits were so severe that they
could have caused her death. She
had last been seen by Acc Down
ing, 22l0 Nicholas St, and Rue
ben Pierce, 1882 Parker St., who
had been drinking with her from
about 1000 p. m. until midnight.
The doctor who examined her
found her death due to cerebral
edema and acute yellow atrophy of
the liver.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
LEGION POST HONORS 81
NEGRO ~SELECTEES

Twenty-seven Negro selectees
who were inducted into army SER
vice Saturday, were guests of hon
or at a meeting of Roosevelt Post
No. 80, American Legion, at an
public entertainment Friday at
$50 p. m. at the Legion hall, Gath
and Burdette st. Ralph Under
wood was chairman of the CONN.,,
and William PEBBLES is Command
err of the Post.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
FINED s25.O 0 M COSTS

Charged with being the keeper
of a disorderly house, Mrs. Willie
Sipms, 2423 Erskine Street was
fined $500 and costs in Police
Court Monday morning, March II,
by Judge Palmer. Several pers-
ons arrested at the house were
charged with being Inmates" and
were held for a blood test.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22

Cook, before the Board of Pardons
and Paroles, seeking a release for
him under a sentence of manslau-
Fhter of Ora Starnes. The board
took the application under advise.
ment.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
CAREYS ARE
RECONCILED

A motion has been filed in the
case of Carey VS.. Carey to dismiss
on the ground that the parties are
now r~econciled and are living as
of yore.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
SUES UNITED CAB

Mrs. Alma Miles, 2930 North
28th St., recently filed suit against
the United Cab Company for S.
10000 damages. She charges the
cab driver slammed the door on
her hand.
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22

Edmund H. Burke, beloved Sec
rotary of Tuskegee Institute, who
died Friday morning, the result of
a stroke suffered the night before.
Mr.. Burke was a fine force for
good in both the official and stu
dent life at Tuskegee.
A former auditor for one Of A
merica's most important firms, he
went to Tuskegee as comptroller,
his unusual ability winning for
him the post as secretary.
Srevices were held in T~uskegee's
chapel. (ANP.)
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22
IN DIVORCE COURT. ~
WIFE ALLEGES HUSBAND
SPENT THOUSAND DOLLARS
OF HER PERSONAL FUND

FOX DIVORCE
Mary Greene VS.. Robert L. Greene
Petition
Comes now the plaintiff and fer
cause of action against the defend
ant alleges:
l. That the plaintiff and de-
PENDANT are residents of Omaha,
Douglas County, Nebraska and
have resided in said county since
their marriage at Lincoln, Nebras-
ka on September 10th, 10; that
the charges of cruelty as hereiH
after set out all occurred With
this state. a
2. That there have been born
no children as issue of said mar
riage.
3. That the defendant is an
habitual drunkard; that he has
failed to provide for the support
and maintenance of the plaintiff
that he has appropriated to him
self from the plaintiffs personal
funds over One Thousand ($1, 000)
Continued on page9ags q
MRS. BESSIE MAE WEST SAYS
HITcD Mn nAC nEEN CnT n
AND INDIFFERENT TO HER
Bessie Mae Cobb VS.. Burney Cobb
Petition
Comes now the plaintiff and for
cause of action against the defend
ant, alleges;
L. That plaintiff has resided in
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
for over ten years last past, and
that the defendant has resided in
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
for the past 3 years.
2. Plaintiff further alleges that
on or about the 10th day of Octo-
Der, 1910, she was married to the
defendant at Papillion, Sarpy
County, Nebraska.
8. Plaintiff further alleges that
she has always conducted herself
since said marriage, as a dutifll
and ehaste wife toward the defend
ant and that Notwithstanding the
same, the said defendant has been
guilty of acts of extreme cruelty
toward the plaintiff such as to Ges
troy the legitimate end and object
of matrimony.-that the defendant
has been cold and Indifferent to-
ward the plaintiff; that he has fail
ed and neglected and refused TO
support her or maintain or prov
ide a home for her.
a.. Plaintiff further alleges that
no children have been born as a
result of said marriage to the part
les.
WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays
for a decree of absolute divorce
from the defendant and that the
defendant be required to pay at
torney fees for her attorney, and
costs of suit; that her maiden
name of Bessie Mae West be res
tored to her and for such other
and further relief as to the court
may seem equitable and just.
Signed, Bessie Mae West.
State of Nebraska)
County of Douglas) S. S.
Bessie Mae Cobb, being first du-
ly sworn on oath deposes and says
that she is the plaintiff in the a
bove entitled action that she hos
read the foregoing petition and
that the contents therein contain
ed are true.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 7th day of March, 1941.
Notary Public.
@~@~
The Omaha guide., 1941-03-22

Attorney H. j. Pinkett was in
Lincoln, Nebraska on Wednesday
March IL, representing Melvin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-14
Great Achievements

The Axis powers have really accom- plished great deal in the past 21 months Not the military conquestS. They have accomplished great deal more than that. They have done other things. Things they had no idea of accomplishing. Things like these.
 They have completely uncovered to the whole world the naked audacity, the shameless unscrupulousness, of. their plan to force into the Nazi mold as much of the world as pleaSes them. They have reSurrected the soul of the British people; discredited and driven from power leadership which was indifferent alike 70 t:e Nazi menace and to internal fail Ire to adjust the British economic and social world to modern times.
 They have shown the colossal folly of the exaggerated nationalism which caused the tiny nations created in central Europe by the First World War to hate and shun one another; they have shown them that their only safety in future lies in collaboration. They have destroyed the illusion in the United States that so great people can remain indifferent to what goes on in the rest of the world; they have breathed life and reality into Pan Americanism, and suddenly switched it from sentimental idealizing to life-and-death practicality
 They have virtually assured greater degrees of independence to component parts of the British Empire, including India, when the war shall be over. They have shown that old-fashioned conquer and-colonize colonial policies of the 18th century are not good enough for the 20th. They have created among Nor wegians, Dutch, French, Czechs, Danes, Belgians, Greeks, and among all the peo- pleS of Europe, nay, of the world, myriad masses of people who know now to their cost the priceless worth of liberty, who will not soon again let the jewel slip from careless fingers.
 Seeking to destroy liberty, they have restored to 1t the strength and the dy- manic 1t has not had for hundred years. Seeking to turn the clock back to a me- dieval despotism, they have opened the way to progress and the development of a real 20th century civilization which shall be neither Communist nor Fascist, neither socialist nor yet capitalist in the sense that 1870 was capitalist. They have opened the way to free world in which the individual has air to breathe, chance to live and grow, bending the neck to no man, lowing only before his God.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-14
An Extra 1so Bomber.

It can be done. It Is being done. A single large manufacturer, Westinghouse Electric, in the past six months has saved enough aluminium to build 1S0 bomberS. This has been done by redesigning cur rent products with substitute materials, thus withdrawing more than 1,5o0,o00 pounds of aluminium from 1941 require ments. More than 150,0o0 pounds of nickel and 100000 pounds of zinc were also saved.
 Many of the substitutes, ayers Presi- dent A. W. Robertson, are better than the original material and the very search for new materials, pressed night and day with relentless force, has uncovered new processes and possibilities undreamed of before. Thousands of manufacturers and millions of individuals are facing the same problem in greater or less degree. And we'll bet many, many of them will find the same thing-that the things they thought were necessary weren't neces- Sary at all, or that something else will do not only as well, but better.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-14
It's in the Air

We presume that city employees who are asking for salary increases as well as those who contemplate doing this are more or less governed by conditions ex- isting at the present time. There's no doubt but what the cost of living has increased in many different respects. Shelter costs or rental if you prefer to call it that is considerably higher today than it was year ago. This is particu- 1arly true here in Waterbury, one of the important defense industry centerS in the country. Food costs have mounted, as any housewife will tell you.
 It's natural for many people to figure that if such costs are going up there should be an increase in wages, salaries, etc. It's a logical conclusion, but if it were carried out to the bitter end, it wouldn't stop at this point. The city, if it accedeS to all the demands for sal ary raises, may find itself in the position where it will have to get more revenue from the taxpayers. To some extent the city should receive more in the next few years as the number of home units mounts locally.
 But there is always tendency to levy more taxes at such time as this. And with Waterbury facing in the next dec- aue PtIlOu Ol lIlLeIlSe eAPdHSIon HI q number of different directions this ten- dency is apt to be more and more pro- nounced We have always had some idea locally that Waterbury's tax rate might some day be brought down below the 3O-mill figure and become more or less established. But there is grave danger right now that such drop can be made without ignoring the claims and requests Of city employees for what seems justifi- able income increases.