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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Until the death of their father,
Harpo never bought hat in a
store. He bought them right off
the head of the eldest Marx and
thought nothing of paying a hun
dred dollors for a hat regardless
of its style or condition. This
always mystified the gentle old
man, but he didn't mind humor-
ing Arthur.
Groucho also used to wear .
wig, but it disappeared one night,
and in desperation he borrowed
a mustache from another come
dian on the 'bill-an actor named
Charlie Chaplin.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11

impossible to stay in one theater
very long, due to the fact that
the pictures always were so bad.
It was Groucho who once went
to the unwilling of super-epic,
but rose and rushed up the aisle
after five minutes of watching
title and credits flashed on the
screen. Detained for q moment
by the producer, who asked If he
were i'll, Groucho snarled, "Your
picture draes!"-and went on
out.
OF course the Marxes feel at
home a m ong the inmates OF
Goofeytown. Tor instance. IL
most moviemen, the brothers are
telephone crazy. They haxe ex-
tensions all over their houses,
but Chico is h worst. It's real
strain for him to pass u telephone
anywhere without calling some
one, just to cay hello in dis
guised voice and then hang up.
CLOTHES-ON AND OFF
Groucho tfains q certain
suavity of appearance, but the
other two have been given up by
all the best tailors. Zeppo, the
one who became an agent, is q
true dandy and always has been
regarded as q cl-angeling. Chico
favors suits of a particularly
loathsome green. Marriage has
improved Harpo, VIII, used not to
care what he wore, IL anything.
Once he panicked q. bunch OF
trespassing picnickers by stalk
ing through some bushes clad
only in his red wig, wearing a
demoniac grin and brandishlng
an ak.
The wig, incidentally, is made
of yak hair. Harpo says so any
way. His Hair is 50 thin that his
forehead extends almost to the
back of his / eek. This condition,
he says, is the result OF wearing
a hat while playing poker.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
BY WILLIAM f. MCKINNEY
Americas Card uthority

In the play Of bridge hands,
many of the same situations turn
up again and again. The expert
does not have to think the situa-
ton out each time it arises--he
simply reacts by well-formed
habit.
The test of the topflight player
is what he does when confronted
by a totally new situation, such
as that which faced E w ar d
Hymes, Jr., after the first trick
in today's hand. I had never seen
this situation before, and / do
not think Hymes had either, but
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
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THEY STILL MARRY

In spite Of everything, people still
get n,oried.
During the post z months there
must hove been quite q few people in
Cook County (Chicoeo) who didn't be-
lisve that everything wos needed for
she- den,nition bow-wows. for 1924
couples stepped UP to the morriooe
lpnso desk, on increase Of IT'S per
z6at over the year before.
erwh;le divorce oIso increased,
/ 81 per cent to q totoI Of o737,
2 fpe- fifth as fost.
IN 1. has been jestineIy oroued
S&6C must Be an optimist tomor-
Nylast follow that those who
~ ltks this diso0ree pro
~ psophsts Of door, who
~ HAT oil is lost and MOTH
~ - totke to the life
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Stomp Honors Founder"
Of ltoIion Language


ITALY's greatest poet. Alishieri
i Dante, Is honored on this 1888
stamp, issued In observance Of
the 10th anniversary Of the proc
lamation Of the empire. It was
this proclamation that was re-
sponsible for binding the Italian
government and the Fascist party
into q single unit.
Dante, who was born in 1888,
was responsible more than any
other scholar for developing the
modern italian language. Before
Dante. wrote the Divine Comedy"
the Italian language was a crude
form Of expression, Of no value to
the scholar. Classical works were
written IN Latin. Even Dante be-
IAN HE. ''Divine Comedy" most
celebrated Of ell his works, in
Latin. But he realized the poten-
tialities Of the Italian language
and decided instead to create the
lanruaee which Is In use today.
me "Divine Comedy" 10 one Of
the purest examples Of poetry.
Probably no other single work
save rise 70 50 much subsequent
literature. The long poem 10 .
classical description Of heaven,
hell and pursatory.
Dante died, virtually In exile
noo he native rloreneA = l33l
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
BY LUCIE NEVILLE

kEA service SbaII N0tIespOuueht
HOLLYWOOD-Notes on the
maniac Marxes: The Harp, the
Chic and the Crouch have COM
pleted Bargain Basement" And
that. they say, is as low as they
can 60, 50 they solemnly promise
that il will be their last picture
together. Anyway, it's the last
on their Metro contract.
This time they're detectives
running wild in a department
store, q situation that provides
plenty of comedy props. Another
and more familiar prop Is the
durable and well-corseted Mar
garet Dumont, whom the aging
lads address as "Qld Ironsides. y
The Marxes have various radio,
theatrical and musical plans for
their individual careers here
after. The plain Fact is that they
never have cared much for pic
lures, and it was their convic-
ton (unjustified ~ three at
tempts) that the only way to
make q successful comedy was
to try it out on the stage first.
GROUCHO GROUCHES
Their attitude toward the Gin
ema has not b e n what you
would call flattering, either.
Groucho, for example, some
times will give a rambling &C
count of who has teen able to
deduct thousands Of dollars from
his income tax as movie admis-
sions and taxi fares. Says the ad-
missions were deductible because
he was in the picture business
and had to see a lot Of movies.
It was necessary to hire lots OF
cabs to rush from one theater to
another. he adds, because it was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
AL OF US -
AHEAD OF ANY OF US

The North American Aviation
plant at lneIewood, CoIif., Is building
pIones for the American people, build
ina them for the people in o couse
which the people have decided is vito!
to their sofety-the eouse Of notiono'
defense.
A certain number Of the employees
of thot plant struck They refused med
iotion by q national boord headed by q
man known for his just and Iiberol
mind. They refused pleos from the
head Of their notionol labor orgonizo-
ton the c. |. o. and by the head OF
the IT, A. W., who hos amply proved
his devotion to the couse Of or9onizo-
ton. They refused the pleos Of notion
al Ieoders right up to the President OF
the United Stotes. All that was osked
Of them was that they stoy on the JOB
while their grievances we're adjusted.
This they refused to do.
The army hos taken over the plant.
1t is specific evidence that we ore in
deodly earnest about the defense drive.
When the President sold 1.-THE
American people expect thot inportioI
recommendations Of our government
services will be followed by both copitoI
and labor" he meant just what he sold.
ond he spoke for the American people.
The taking over Of the North Amer
icon plant is not on oct of the govern
ment in fovor of the employer and
oeoinst labor. Employers have been We
hement in their opposition to any such
tokine over Of plants. Nobody wonted
this. The government was literally fore
ed to oct, since every effort to conciIi-
ote had been rebuffed
1t must be borne in mind thot this
oct is no solution Of the difficulty.
Planes cannot be built with boyonets.
But neither can planes be built by men
shuffIine around in picket line.
Neither organized labor nor indus
try wants to see this North American
precedent extended. It is to the odvon-
toee Of neither to have the government
step into strike situations in this dros-
tic manner
Inere is only one way 10 OVOlO II.
Thot is for both to realize that produc-
ton comes first; thot neither is wise in
trying to insist on the lost letter Of their
rights at the risk Of the sofety Of the
whole people.
We believe thot IS per cent Of To-
Dor and IS per cent Of management
ore opposed to the uncompromisine ot-
titude that led to the North American
crisis. We believe the action taken
there will prove the exception, and
that it will be used most sporinely as
q precedent. This is because we have
foith thot IS per cent Of both labor
ond management believe, deep down,
in "olI Of US" oheod Of "ony Of US.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
YOU'VE ALREADY
BEEN HURT, JOE

A lot Of these scores have q
certoin value in waking you UP
in the middle Of the doy to
make you reoIize this situotion
is serious. In thot category put
all the buzzing around ono Bit
inc thot Horse Fly la Guordio
is doing, getting civilian de-
tense organized, telling ever'-
body that the fire apartments
should be enloreed five times
to be able to put out fires like
London hos had from incen-
diory bombs.
In the same bosket ore the
Ickes ickies thot we'll have
to 90 on national doylight SOW
ine time, 90 without gasoline
on Sunday and live in O cold
house next winter If you heot
with oil, all because Of region
al power and petroleum short
Goes. The War Departments
orioinol request for q bill Civ
ina the President the right to
seize oil kinds Of property is
onother hing Of the same
kind.
There is q certoin amount
of hysterio in all this propo-
oondizine for home consump-
ton, Joe. Let O ruror get stort-
ed obout q shortoge Of steel o.
oil or sugar and everyone will
rush in to buy and stock UP,
thereby making the threatened
shortage more acute.
Everything thot hos been
done to you isn't just to score
you. Whether you know It OF
not. you have olreody been
hurt and your aches now ore
nothing in comparison to whot
they will be.
You will probably be mok-
ina more money before the
yeor is out, If you're not a.
reody, but more money will be
token away from you in toxes
and things, so where does Il
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11

We must prevent the destruc-
ton of local self government and
the GENERALIZATION, of power t
Washington.
Justice Owen J. Roberts at
Villanova College commence
ment.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Mt. Clemens band has de-
cided not to take part In the
state tournament.
The ntract for the new
block, 70 be erected by Messrs.
Porter end Ullrich, has been let
10 Mr.. johnson, the court house
contractor. for $6.465. OF this
amount -, 265 Is for Mr.. Porter's
building. on the corner, and in
cludes The common wall.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11

WASHINGTON. June 10
Mr.. Joseph Public.
Mount Clemens. Mich.
DEAR JOE:
Things happen in Washing.
ton so fost these days that IL
you have q chronic -left-ot-ths-
post feeling, it is quite under
stondoble and no form Of as
pirin w suIphonilomide hos YET
been found to cure you Of this
particularly malignant form Of
whore wos ] Yesterday"
hangover.
Miss one days develop
rnsnts down here, and you have
to run like Whirlowoy to coteh
up with the procession. Thot
being the cose, il isn't q bod
ideo now and then to Toxic
stock and see just what this
defense effcrt hos done to you,
Joe, and where you ore going
to Get off If things keep on 90
inc In the direction they're
needed now.
Speaking in Distract terms
this business storteC out to pre-
serve your Four Freedoms -
freedom Of worship. freedom
Of speech. freedom from wont
and freedom from feor. The
first two ore still In the bog.
Joe, but it isn't going to be
very long before you're going
to want q LOT Of things you
cont get, and as for being
scored they're dropine ghosts
on every Iomppost in town and
putting Nv o W." on all the
doormots in ploee OF wei
come
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES
|, YEARS AGO TODAY

The annual luncheon Of the
child Study Club Is held at st.
Joseph's Sanitarium on Wednes-
day noon.
Final meeting of League OF
Women Voters is held at the
home of Mrs. Don Westendorf.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

August Biewer has fitted up
q commodious summer garden
adjoining his place OF business.
DR.. Gardner puts q fine boe-
KEEL atomizer into his office.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11

Lucic NcUille is pinch-hitting
for Paul Harrison nOW touring
army camps and defense indus
tries.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

Thirty.eight deaths were re-
ported in Maeomb county in
April, Is in Mount Clemens.
The Medea hotel Is erecting Q
fortress on the porch-to keep
out mosquitoes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
; BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON .

lsovs you? Next yeor's tax bill /,
j. still bsin9 written, but such (
hints as hove been posed out
'ndieots thot perhaps eight
million people who haven't
paid income toxes before will
be nlcked now.
Six per cent Of the notion-
al income went for defense in
$40, " per cent will 90 In
I94l, and the folk Is thot II
will have to BE- 40 per cent be-
fore this is all over.
II that doesn't put the pinch
on you, q lot Of other things
will. There ore some real short
oees thot get to the supply Of
things you use every doy., The
number Of new cors ODE made
next years has olreody Been
cut 20 per cent ord may Be cut
more. $50
WAsHTUB s.l-,S5
SHORTAGE m oettkGsf,
There ore Is motefiofs, most
OF them nnetols, 50 scorce they
have to be rotioned, That ef-
feets even such plebeion. things
as woshtubs. because there is
zinc in woshtubs. and all the
zinc in sight may be needed for
the bross thot goes into om-
munition coses.
A price control machinery
hos been set up to make sure
the costs Of these scorce mo-
teriols don't 90 spiroIine out Of
sight. Maximum price sched-
uIes have already been issued
on eight materials. This tsreol-
" for your protection. and to
check inflotion, even rs old to-
boeco-chewine Senotor Cotton,
Ed. Smith says its Socialism. y
Socialism? Things hoyen't
gone quite thot bod YETI but
they're close to It. Some form
Of property seizure bill is like
~ to be passed by Congress.
They've already posed a bill
giving the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation authority to
spend up to 500 million at
any one time, up to q tot0l OF
is billion to creote corpora
lions or take any. octipp nee
essory to speedup the deftnse
proorom. II thot isn't Fosdism,
what IS? Especially wheit its
put on top Of the brood powers
Of the lease lend bill, the seIec-
tive service law, and existing
federal statutes which olreody
permit the government to oc-
auire any and oil property tor
just compensation.
You still have your right to
strike, Joe, but il you don't be-
have, even thot may be token
away. Congress is lSeisIoting
on all sorts Of thinesH hese
days. limiting your right to
leove or enter the country,
your right to import or export,
by indirection putting their
okoy on q ,ot he "a. E. F.,
chonoine the oee limits Of men
for the droft. go.
This is not to olorm you un-
duly, but to make sure you
know whot's up. Your liberties
ore slipping, Joe. Moybe its
all for the best ond maybe be-
fore long. you may get some OF
them back.
Your Correspondent,
~ = -.~r>Ns
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
10 YEARS AGO TODAY

1881 5EyJ
Threats of a milk strike are
rife in Macomb county today.
Violin pupils OF Mrs. William
F. Sawn present their annual re-
cital.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-11
. High|ights From
The Latest Books .

Pierre Dan PddSen, author OF Days
OF our Years, has undergone q
sudden trdnstOrmdtion-the pact
fist nOW becomes u militant de-
fender OF democracy. In his latest
book "The Time Is NOU' dial:
sD, ran Pddsen looks ahead to
see uhdt the tcdr has in store for
the irOrld. Strangely, his prcdtc.
tiOns, made several tCeeks ago,
are noU borne out by the sUUt-
mouing fortunes OF tCdr. Pdrtic.
uldrIy significant is this earning,
q glance into the past aud q
glimpse OF the dangers OF the
future:
The present hostilities, which
got under way in 1898 with the
destruction of that great mill
tary bastion that was the Czecho-
slovak Republic and with the
crushing of Spanish democracy
show day by day that the Ger
mans are following their plan to
the letter. They are taking the
world by installments.
Yet none of Hitler's successive
blitzkrieg invasions must be
looked upon as the main battle.
His conquests in Central Europe,
of scandinavian and Low Coun-
tries, of the Balkans and Ne7r
East are but stages in a campaign
that will not stop until every
knee in the entire world is bent
in humble subsection.
Hitler is forging the links OF
chain which, if finally connected,
will place the entire human race
under q yoke. -.
The sooner the leaders and
peoples of the few remaining
free countries understand the 81
gantic scope and pattern Of the
pres ent hostilities, the more
chance there will be of stopping
Hitler.
Hitler must be prevented from
marching around the oceans. He
must be prevented from Selling
bases in West Africa, He must
be prevented from effecting a
juncture with the Japanese ar
mics in upper India and there
after taking the Singapore base
by q Joint southwark march with
the Japanese forces from the
land side. down through Siam
and the Malay Peninsula. Hitler
must be prevented from encir-
cling the American continent. !,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-05-30

had pu---
er. The lower part of his face was
spattered with oil. There was moth
ing dashing or romantic about him
as there was in the appearance of
the foreign drivers :. And Rose
didn't have much more to say
about it.. It was just another days
work. He was asked how he felt.
"Pm alive" he said, and went
on putting his pipe.
But if we couldn't get NOR
facts FIR m Mauri that day we
found that his "grease-monkey"
would talk. Mauri's mechanic, also
Jewish, has been with the Ameri-
can champ ever since the latter
made his track debut. The erst-
while No. man of the tracks has
been in the saddle of a gas buggy
for the past fifteen years. Like
so many other men in the bust
ness, he got his start on the dirt
tracks of county wherever
a century note or a grand could be
picked up as first place money.
And it was at one of these saucers
that Rose received his first Cruel
ing baptism. On these ovals, once
car lags behind the leader, the
driver has to eat dust all the way
home. He can't do anything to
help himself but trust to luck and
pray that the guy in front goes
through the rail. But Mauri, in his
first test, went through the rail
himself.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-05-30
: INnIANAPOLIS '5OO-MILE'
SPECIAL

Iys a gala day in Indianapolis
~ the checkered flag goes
IN. Racers who have been build
and grooming their super-spe-
R gas buggies and who have
Iivzed down the straightaway at
qualifying speed of almost lis
lbs ner hour are off on a quest
the big dough. The Indianapolis
bssic is the lushest prize on the
Lcuits and there's even bigger
bney waiting in testimonials,
ntracts and orders. That's why
grind is the Broadway stem
the men who live with gears,
Etons. drive shafts and speed the
lar long.
no the fans there's no other
Iort so replete with thrills, dan
RS and suspense as this business
auto racing wherein death turks
every swerve of a wheel on the
ARP banks Of a curve, or the
ckening skid over the numerous
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-05-30
BUSINESS Directory
TRUCK BODIES

TRUCK BODIES
KOONS & KOONS co.
Manufacturers of
kuck Bodies, Repairs and Paint.
Z, Fender and Body Work, Seat
Covers, Upholstering
telephone 5-4829 1920 Main s.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-05-30
JEWS IN
SPORTS
b. MoRRrs WIENER

concrete retaining walls IT
member that since 1912-the
year of the tracks existenc,
least one driver has been
annually, would not be mil
their own business. They don
low themselves to think of
thing but super-chargers,
tons, tires, wheel alignm
lightning pit repairs and cha.
and, of course,-the prize me
Accidents and deaths happel
the next guy.
We once talked to a membe
this strange breed of men
would rather hurtle a 4,OOO-pOun,.
chariot at dizzying clip under the
most narrowing conditions for five
or six hours over a course that
Weaves and bends and winds like a
pretZel on a bender than
eat. These men can't help
themselves. They love speed, and
racing is the best way they know
of making a living. But this guy
we spoke tO-the more we studied
him the more we were convinced
that his flesh and bones were
gears and pistOns and there was a
drive shaft where his heart was
supposed to be. A blood count, we
felt certain, must reveal a rich,
lush Oil flow cOursing through his
veins. Nerves? They make these
guys without such gadgets. And
still, to all appearances, he was a
normal fellOw-even as you and 1.
MAURI ROSE - TOP JEWISH
DRIVER
This driving robot was Mauri
Rose. We first met him-a little
guy with a Charlie Chaplin mus
sitting on a repair trailer,
smoking a pipe, while his Burd
piston ring special was being
hauled off to the pits. He had just
finished a grueling stunt and only
a few minutes before had flashed
down the stretch under the check
cred flag to beat Wild Bill Cum
n1ings by breath for sixth place.
Mauri was affable. That was news.
He hates newspapermen and pho
tographers and says so. He won't
talk to them ordinarily. Even then,
in successful moment, he wasn't
very communicative.
To look at him you would never
guess that he had just driven 800
miles at an average speed of 80
miles an hour, fighting his car
around a turn every 80 seconds
and pushing her down the straight
away on screaming tires with his
gas pedal pressed to the flOOrbOard
at clip of $50 miles. He had been
at the wheel, without relief, with
his eyes glued to the road, for al
most five hours. He had finished
sixth in the Roosevelt RaceWays
Inaugural Special but had attained
the distinction of being the first
American under the wires.
"It was pretty bumpy," said
Rose, still putting his pipe. The lad
who was to attain the distinction
of being the No. 1 racing driver in
1887 as a result of that days per-
Torrance, wore an old cap now in
place of his crash helmet and he
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-28
Pensacola News
By ANN BEARMAN

Howdy folks. Betcha thought
I'd given up the job as Pensacola
correspondent for the Southern
Jewish Weekly, but you're wrong!
I'll admit I haven't been Jerry on
the job" but you'll be hearing
from me weekly from now on Il
hope.)
Amt nothing much been going
on around these parts lately, but
1 went shopping around and gath
cred bit of news from here and
there, and put it together, so here
goes:
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Safer CSa-
die Lubel of Mobile, Ala and Mr..
Harry Abrams spent two weeks at
Miami Beach. DR.. and Mrs. Sydney
Lerner spent several days in Phil
adelphia visiting relatives. They
were accompanied home by Miss
Diana Rosenberg and Mr.. Dan
Robertson who were their house
guests. Hynie and Doris Spector
and h at darling little girl Of
theirs. Nanette, took trip re-
Gently also. They spent two weeks
visiting relatives in Beaumont,
Texas. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ordon
have as their house guest, Mrs.
Ordon's niece, Miss Lee Cohen. Of
Brooklyn. New York. Mr.. and Mrs.
William Willenzik entertained re-
Gently at their home. celebrating
their 25th wedding anniversary.
Congratulations and best wishes!
Miss Lee Cohen, Yours Truly, Will
lie Willenzik and Morris Bearman
drove over to Mobile Sunday for
the day. Quite a few Pensacolians
attended the Mardi Gras Masquer-
ade Ball which was given in Mo
bile Sunday by the Jewish Progress
sive Club.