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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05

cent piece in a national maya
zine about Bob Hope.
Main trouble with the Hope
story was that after building
him up as selfish penny pinch
er who earns a fantastic wage,
it failed to make any mention
of his benefactions, especially
the charity performances.
There is no question that Bob
Hope plays more benefits than
anybody else in the whole realm
of entertainment. During his
four years in pictures there have
been several hundred of them,
and there is no record of his
ever having turned down such
an appearance, except those
which we're promotional rae
ketS.
During his recent vacation.
the first in four years, Hope had
been ordered by his studio to
turn down all benefit requests
so that he could get more rest.
He disregarded the ban, played
an afternoon show in Toronto
for $500 r. A. F. cadets-some
about to leave for England-and
then did a night show which
netted $500 for bombing vic
Tins.
ENTER CROSBY
Bob Hopes friendly feud with
Bing Crosby indirectly provided
some of the damaging material
in the magazine article. The
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Defense of Suez ConoI
Is Safeguard to Egypt

THE Suez Canal is the jugular
vein linking Britain with the
oil fields Of the East and her ORR
entail possessions. Protecting that
narrow strip of water is Egypt.
one Of the mysteries Of World War
II.
To understand Egypt's position
in the present war. you must ap-
preciate her relationship with
England. Modern Egypt was a
part of Turkey, became a British
protectorate in 1914. This expired
in 1922, and the country was
made . kingdom, British influence
remained strong.
The Egyptian government JUS
titles its -belligerency with the
contention that it is living up
fully to its obligations under the
Anglo-Egyptian treaty Of 1896.
This provides that il Britain en-
tiers q war. Egypt will place at the
disposal OF the British her air
ports, harbors and all means of
communication. That, say the
Egyptians. has been done.
The stamp above. issued In
1888, Is one OF series of airmail
stamps. II shows an airplsne
flying over the Pyramids. relics
of an Egyptian history dating
back more then - centuries.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
FARMERS CAN'T DOT ALL

Fred S. Sexouer, president of the
DoirVnen's League Cooperative Asso-
cjotion, recently sold this: FORMERS
connot lroise defense food at low prices
in the foce Of shortooe of help and ris-
ing costs. Formers shouId-be patriotic,
btst patriotism does not consist Of let
ting labor leaders tie up munitions,
arms and supply industries, and expect
HI ut ccqsinuoIly higher woees and
slc1 3Eahort. cont be expec-
e. efifices They must
W oes! ofoups. II general
nttHAe to 90 up, due to
~ other costs, the price
ted goods must follow
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD. Aug. St,
news when a HollywOodsmar
can find a profitable flaw in q
studio contract, because those
bewildering documents run on
for about 10 pages Of where
as-es and why-nots, covering
everything from industrial ext
gencies to the way the party-of-
the-second-part conducts his
private life and combs his hair
So the screen colony is chuck
ling at the news that RKO now
is paying Carson Kanin $1,000
week to tote rifle in
training camp. The 28-year-old
director almost certainly is the
most highly paid private in the
Army.
This has happened because, by
some oversight, RKO neglected
to provide against a national
emergency. When the director
received an order to report for
induction, the studio followed
the Hollywood rule by sending
him a check for four weeks
salary. His agent sent it back.
He pointed out that the United
States was not at war, that the
contract was still in force, and
that it would be broken any
time the studio quit paying off.
OF course, he company had
a perfect right to do that, but
in that case Kanin also would
have the right to make deal
with another studio as soon as
he got out of the service. At
least two other companies would
be happy to hire the able, Mr..
Kanin at $4,000 a week.
BOB Is HOPED
In all the years that gossip
mongers, commentators and
other critics have been sniping
at Hollywood md its people, the
greatest amount of local indig-
nation has resulted from a re-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
CONGRESS MUST NOT FAIL

CONGRESS is now working on. q meas
IRE which will have much to do with
determining the future welfare OF every
citizen of this country-ond or the
country itself. Thot measure is the new
tax bill
This bill. as the New York Times
points out in fine editorial, must not
merely roise Jorge amount OF revenue.
II must roise that revenue in such q
woy as to safeguard our economy from
the price dislocotions inherent in q re-
armament program.
I'm the cose Of individual income
toxes, the desired detectives coll tor
hioher rotes and broadening Of the
tax base SO as to include large number
Of those citizens, now exempt, who will
receive q major portion Of the govern
ments increased contribution to Pur-
chasing power through higher wo9es
and increased employment !. On the
score Of excess profits taxes the main
question is to devise q bosis OF toxotIon
that will really hit excess profits and not
those normoI profits, olreody subject
to lorqe toxes, which are essential to
the proper maintenance OF industry.
The Treosury's suggestion Of q single
formula for calculating excess profits,
bosed on overoge rate Of return on in
vested copitol, would not accomplish
this. s-... =. r,,.e,..- y
In ony time. the power to tox is the
power to destroy. In these disordered
times, thot power, il m'sused, con be
infinitely more destructive. If we tax
the profit out Of business, it will mean,
in the long run, thotwe tax business out
Of business. It will mean that industry
will no longer have the financial nour-
ishnent which is essential to keeping
it olive. 1t will mean, therefore,
collapse of our productive capacity.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
NEW WEAPONS

1t is most encouraging to see the Ar
my come out with two new weapons
which suggest that it hos really been
studying the needs Of modern worfore
First, new corbine, sem-outomo-
tic light rifle weighing only five
pounds, and only three feet long, All
infantry officers below the rank Of mo-
jor, all non-commissioned officers,
ond many speciol troops. engineers,
machine eunners, and the like, will
CORY it. This is q businessIike means
Of increasing by almost SO per cent the
number of rifles in an infontry reei-
nent, replacing the defensive, 5O-yord
pistol with on offensive-defensive BOO
yard light corbine.
Second, new hoIf-troc truck
mounting O 75-mm field gun is al
reody coming Of the assembly lines.
Such O weapon in the hands of France
might have stopped the German tank
blitz which broke through the French
army. Criticism bosed on pictures
showing U. S. field pieces being pulled
backward into position is here answer
ed. This gun could even fire point
blank with the truck in motion.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05

II must be with sentiments Of
humility and despair mingled
with pride and hope that any
speaker attempts to discuss to-
days world.-Paul v. McNutt,
federal security administrator.
We in America have not been
in the habit of pitting one immi-
grant group against another, or
dividing our people between ma
tive-born and foreign-born. -
Alden Whitman. Committee for
the Protection Of the Foreign
born. !
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

tner responding with his lowest
four-card suit. While the sys-
tenn has not spread widely,
Turner has been quite success
full with it.
Today's hand is an example
of his style of bidding. South
must open with one club, his
lowest four-card suit. not with
one spade. Likewise North must
respond with one heart, no.
one diamond. If South opens
with one spade the tontrac;
may reach four spades, which
is hopeless. The right CONTRACT
is four hearts. which can be
beaten only by a trump open
ing.
After the diamond opening.
declarer won the ace. discard
ing a spade from dummy. A
second diamond was led for
dummy to ruff. The king of
spades gave re. entry for an
other diamond lead and ruff.
Dummy cashed the ace Of
spades and the ace and king Of
clubs. North letting 60 his last
spade.
A club lead put North In To
lead q fourth diamond, which
South ruffed. Then dummy
led a spade. and North was
bound to make one more TRUMP
trick for his game.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
BY WILLIAM z. McKENNEY
Americas Card Authority

In every section of the coun-
try on our transcOntinental
tour, we found players with
ideas of their own bidding or
play. The winners of the open
pair championship at S n
Francisco were Walter Turner
and Don Oakie of Oakland,
Calf. They play what is called
the Turner system"
One of the piactises OF this
system is the bidding OF the
lowest four-card suit, with par
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES Q
5 YEARS AGO TODAY

Free books for Mount Glenn
ems public school children will
cost the district $4,000 this
fail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Schutt have returned from
trip to Chicago
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

The Center Line road was vir-
tually finished on Aug. 1, but
some work remains to be done.
DR.. Yates is planning a hand
some new house on North Graf
lot. Building will start immed-
lately.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
by the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
SATISFACTION
oTERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Mrs.
Howard Clare was irked when
she shot six on the par-three
No. 10 hole at Terre Haute
Country Club in tournament.
She finished the round and
went back, vowing, I'll mas
ter this hole!"
Her first practice shot on the
l60-yard hole was an ace.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
so YEARS AGO TODAY

$4,000 of the courthouse
subscription fund is yet uncol-
lected.
It's a hundred in the shade!
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON

to 10 per cent. TO yield an od-
ditionoI ST. million. On wosh-
ing machines is q manufacture
ers' excise tax of 10 per cent,
estimoted to yield ST. million.
On radio sets, an increase from
SIS to 10 per cent, estimated
to yield $9.4 million.
The Office of Price Admin
istrotion and Civilian Supply,
however, has under considero-
ton with these industries, pro-
eroms for curtoiIine the pro-,
duction by perhaps as much
os 20 or SO per cent, just to
divert their bosic materials to
defense. II those cuts should
be made. tax revenues from
those sources will be cut pro-
portionotely.
MORE SHUTDoWNS
MEAN LESS REVENUE
A more serious aspect of the
situation might come from
curtoilments in industry such
os those referred TO. Supposino
shutdowns do have to come in
some non-defense industries
because they oren'tobIe to get
moterioIs. Thot means reduc-
ton Of corporation tax, reduc-
ton Of profits tax, perhaps re-
duction of surtox and excess
profits tax.
There is, of course, one miti-
eotine footor to all this bear
tolk. Defense authorizations
and appropriations ore now
over the $50 billion mark, and
unless oil signs foil the nation
al income might hit as high as
sos billion in 1912. In that
case. the money is going to be
poid to somebody, somehow,
and it will be spent.
II you cont spend it on new
cors, maybe you'll spend it on
jewelry. furs, monographs and
records or perfume and pow
der. They're taxed, too. and
what cont be collected from
one source may be collected
from another.
So the tax experts figure
that while their calculations.
on individual items may be
sky-whift, the totoI may not
be for off the $3.5 billion esti-
mate otter all. They think it
will be fun seeing. All this
proves, if anything. is that you
cont keep ahead OF the tox
collector.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05

But the Mexicons, who ore q proud
people, know how to answer q request
thot Berlin dictate it's foreign policy.
With the smooth and delightful Ioneu-
oee which hos distinguished Mexican
diplomatic correspondence in Iote
years, Mexico replied to the Germans
that she alone us competent, in obso-
lutte fashion, to note on what occasions
the liberty of Commerce and the sover-
eighty Of Mexico ore injured"
Further, continued this little gem Of
diplomatic wordoee ~ con assure your
exoelIency thot the rood Mexico will
take will be that which it esteems most
appropriate, without the need of receiv-
ing or carrying out Instructions Of other
authorities conveyed by any Of the &C.
credited diplomats in this copitoI."
A few North Americans have been
annoyed ct times when, in the oil con-
troversy and other matters, Mexico and
other lotin American countries have
shown quiet determination to 90 their
own way. But when thot same rugged
spirit Of independence shows itself
equally determined to toke no back
tolk from European totoIitorions, we of
the United Stotes must feel q little thrill
Of pride. Z
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05

so YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Workmen are engaged IN
laying a beautiful tile floor in
the office of the Medea.
The town is full but the
rush is over"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
. BARBS

Some people talk in their sleep
and others sleep in their talk.
Starting fires with care is a
fine theory but in just a few
months you'll find out you need
coal.
An eastern church burned
and. for once. the congregation
was there.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05

10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Municipal Park in Center
Line started.
Roseville Boy Scouts raise
SO at lawn fete
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
DY PETER EDSoN
Dolly Memitor Weshinston
CORRESPONDENT


mode, doddy, before the ole
toots which is the welI-knowr
tox bill now being orowIed
over in Congress becomes G
low. But regardless of how the
hoir-do is offered. the curves
ond items built up or brought
under control, or how thick the
makeup is Ioid on, the old
girl will still be q eoId-dieeine
body, and os full of uncertain
ties as q tenperomentol wench
Of her kind can be.
Most of these uncertainties
revolve around the amount OF
money which the tax bill will
collect from various gents
the new ones who haven I been
touched so heavily before. but
more particularly the ones
whose business may be SUBJ
jected to considerable ourtoiI-
ment of production by priori-
ties or price control and the
other hoard, Of q wartime
economy.
Whot the tax bill sets out
to do, of course, is to raise an
additional $3.5 billion by in
creased or new taxes on about
40 items To arrive. at this fig
ure, considerable head sorotch-
ing, pad scratching, research
and stotistiooI estimating had
TO be done by treasury and
congressional tax experts. And
while their figures ore as good
os any, the foct remains thot
so uncertoin ore the effects Of
the defense effort on business
that the tax bill itself may be
obsolete before it is posed
by the Senate Some time in
September or Octob er ond
signed by the President.
Consider, for example. the
tax on new automobiles. The
rote has been doubled, bring
ing it up to 7 per cent. and
the base hos been revised to
toke into consideration the
foct thot the production Of
new passenger cors for civilian
use hos been curtoiIed by op-
proximoteIy 20 per cent SO as
to divert more productive CO.
pocity ond more raw moteriols
to defense industries. On thot
computation it is figured thot
this new tox bill will yield ton
additional $74.o million.
DIMINISHING RETURNS
You may have heard q few
rumbIinos about the necessity
Of ourtoiIine QUITO production
by approximately so per cent.
{ thot program goes through,
the whole tax bill estimote is
shot galley west and the yield,
insteod of being S74.o may be
ony S45 or $50 million. Bineo!
There's another SIS million
that hos to be roised by bor-
rowing.
This commentary is made
here NOT in any effort 10 be
disporoeing Of the efforts Of
the tax boys, who have enough
headaches os it is, but simply
TO point out another Of the be-
deviIments which must be en-
dured in times like these.
What goes for automobiles
goes for some other items on
the bill. On refrioerotine and
oir-conditioning machines, the
tax hos been roised from SIS
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
OVERLAPPING THE HAND

it hos been CALLING to have to sit
back and watch Germany insinuote it.
self into American countries by means
which the United States dsIikes to
adopt and for which it has small talent.
But there is good hope today thot the
Germans have badly overpIoyed their
hand. The very arrogance and effron-
terry which served them SO we'll up to q
point is now beginning to trip them up.
Bolivia stood for lot. But when
letters we're found from their own mill
tory ottoche in Berlin to the German
ambassador at La Poz detailing plans
for miIitory coup, the BoIivons COLL
ed O halt, and called it in words Of one
syllable
Next piece Of Maj effrontey wos
q circuIor letter to all Latin American
governments demanding that they pro-
test against the action Of the United
Stotes in stopping shipment Of Ameri-
can goods to Nozi agents in Latin ooun-
tries Such cool crust has seldom been
seen in diplomatic circIes-ot least not
since Berlin was promising Mexico
most Of the American southwest in re-
turn for support in the World War;
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
BLANKET RUMORS

BLANKET kUMOkS
aCAMP DAVIS, N. G. - When
a quartermaster officer started
distributing wooden comforters
to troops under a 96-degree sun,
the rumors began.
The boys started writing the
folks telling them they were off
to Iceland - at the closest.
Harried officers were beseig-
ed with questions, and camp
phones started ringing. The
blankets were withdrawn.
@. E. d.
eMEDFORD, Ore. - Forest
Lookout George Fleischman
couldn't reach the rattlesnake
under his shed with a rake.
So he baited a trap with
cheese.
This caught mouse.
Then he baited a fish hook
with mouse.
The snake rose to the lure
and Fleischman reeled it in.
HELL'S FAR-FROM WORK
ROLLA, Mo. - There's going
to be hell in the Philippines -
il he can just get there.
j. Howard He'll, Philippine
mining engineer home for q visit
is worrying whether he can get
return passage or not In view
of recent far eastern develop
ments.
JITTERBUG BOLT
oMILLSTADT, Ill. - Mischiev-
Gus lightning touched off a con-
cert at Oscar Leiber's tavern.
Awakened by q storm while
asleep in q bedroom over the
tavern, Leiber heard the blaring
strains of q popular tune above
the thunder. He feared intrud-
ers.
But investigation disclosed
lightning had struck an outdoor
coin slot that operates juke
box, melted the switch and
started the records.
20
HOT WEATHER HAZARD
AOMAHA - August Choate,
81, thinks maybe II was the heat
that made him dream his room
was on fire, leap TO the window.
unlock the screen and drop Is
feet TO cobbled pavement below.
He was taken to . hospital
with back and ankle injuries.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-12
Willkie Sees War
Should England
be Defeated

Washington. Feb. 12-UP-Well-
informed Senate sources intimated
today that the Administration
would accept Wendell L. Wilkes
proposal to restrict the benefits
OF the aid-to-democracies bill to
Great Britain, Greece and China.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee meets in executive ses-
sion to begin considering proposed
amendments. Supporters OF the
measure conferred an hour earlier
to map their strategy with Chair.
man Walter F. George. D., Ga.
Willkie, 1910 Republican presi.
Dental nominee against President
Roosevelt, gave the Administra-
tons bill a final push toward en-
actment at final public hearings
yesterday with q. statement gen.
orally supporting the measure. He
predicted that if Britain collapsed
because OF ineffective aid from the
United States. this country would
be at war with Germany in 80 to
so days.
Beyond Administration
He went far beyond the Roose
welt Administration by asserting
See NV Page 6
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-12
Schedule For
Sale Prepared

Schedule for the sale of state
lands in -Washtenaw County by
the state land office board was an
nounced today. The sale will be-
gin Thursday at 3 o'clock and con-
tinue through Feb. Is. 1t will be In
the Office OF the county treasurer
in Ann Arbor.
The schedule from the official
sales book is: Thursday, Feb. 10,
Pages 8, 4, 5, 6 and Page 7 down
to East Lawn Subdivision. This
includes land in Browns Second
Addition, Fair View Heights Sub
division. Grand View, Hamilton.
Rose and Sheehan's Addition, HIS.
cocks Addition, Daniel Hiscock's
Second Addition, Packard Lawn
Addition. Periwinkle Park Subdi-
vision. Westwood Hills, Eber White
Addition, Wildwood Park Addition
No. /, Ann Arbor: II. w. Larze-
lere's Addition and Park Ridge,
Ypsilanti. land in the village OF
Dexter including Mary ]. Raywalts
Second Addition, Dexter Avenue
Hills. Firwood Hills Subdivision,
See LAND SALE-Page 6
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-12
Springfield Marks
LinCoIn'S Birthday

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 12--INS
A tall. granite shaft jutting
into the sky attracted thousands
of persons to the tradition-laden
central Illinois Lincoln country
today as the nation observed the
132nd anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's birth.
Chief mecca for the visitors
was Springfield's Oak Ridge
Cemetery, where the body
of the Civil War President lies
buried under a stately white
monument of stone. Nearby is
New Salem State Park, stepped
in Lincoln lore.
Three conducted pilgrimages
wound their way through the
heart of Springfield, Lincoln's
home for 25 years, and north
ward to the tomb. One was
sponsored by the American Le-
gion, another by the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, and third by
the Illinois Young Republican
Organization.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-12
Beauty of Isle
Royale Shown

An audience which filled the
chapel of the First Methodist
Church was delighted with a travel
talk and motion pictures OF Isle
Royale as shown by Dennis Glenn
Cooper Tuesday night at the fourth
session OF EveTybody's College.
Mr.. Cooper said the island is so
miles long and three TO ten miles
wide, and possesses many attrac-
lions for travellers who are primari-
ly interested in nature. There are
about so inland lakes. many
streams, and about it are over 100
small islands. The park has an
area OF 200 square miles, entirely
forested, and part Of it as yet not
thoroughly explored. he said.
Mr.. Cooper's mention OF moose Oh
the island was one of the most in
teFesting features of his talk. He
had several pictures Of them, one
taken at night showed the eyes of
the moose in the dark, another was
Of a moose and her calf and others
were of the moose swimming in
wv WoA1A WIN AAACll 6ltdI aAN-
Tered heads above the surface. Mr..
Cooper said that the moose came
from Ontario in 1912 and now there
are 1000 head on the island.
OF the pleasures provided, Mr..
Cooper mentioned fishing, for which
no licenses are required. swimming
in the blue cold depths OF the wa
tiers around the island, and hiking
and exploring the rugged interior.
Mr.. Cooper told Of the flowers, the
orange lilies and jewel weed. and
said that strawberries were found
in abundant quantities.
A dramatic note was introduced
in Mr.. Cooper's talk when be told
how he and his assistant. Frank A.
Bruce, became trapped by fire. Res
cue was effected by airplane pilots
who conveyed directions to the
men regarding a safe exit from the
$4,000 acres burned. More ade-
quste fire protection is now being
furthered, the speaker said.
The isle is about 1000 miles
from here.