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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
THOSE NEGATIVE ICELANDERS

The Parliament Of Iceland 1.-THE old
est in the world, having existed con-
tinuousIy for 1000 yeors) voted 80 to
3 to approve the cooperation Of Amer
icon forces with British to prevent pos
sible seizure Of the island by the Nozs
Three Ioelonders voted in the neeo-
tive. They we're Communists.
Thot's odd, since the Official Conn.,
munist Jine, now thot Russio hos been
invoded, is Everything to beot Hitler. ="
Now you might have assumed thot to
prevent Hitler from Selling Iceland wos
helping to beot him. But not to these
lceIondio Comrades. How come?
The only way we con explain it is
thot Iceland is remote, and thot teIe-
phone and telegraph connections with
the kremlin ore not oil the Comrades
might desire So there they we're,
cou9ht honeino to lost weeks line in
steod Of this weeks.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

thing crooked!" he declared.
You get no money for nothing,
anytime. The argument took
three hours.
ANONYMOUS HERO
Also in Little Italy. Guthrie
found Michael Saccini, porter in
a barber shop. In Philadelphia
at the edge of the city dump,
he met, signed and paid cheer
full George Wills, who had been
living by salvaging bits of metal
from the refuse. Up in buffalo,
he traced down Feodor Sok, con-
tent and comfortable in a VET
Grams CCC camp.
I'm going to withhold the
names of the tenth hero and
the Texas town where he lives
in a one-room shrek. When Bill
Guthrie knocked an was told
to come in, he entered and saw
only the mans eyes. Even in the
gloom of the place, tie host hid
behind a curtain. Maybe he was
naturally sh. :. Possibly he was
a war; aged monstrosity.
G thrie, remembering those
burning eyes anC the talk they
had, doesn't like to guess.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15

Private Percy Beardsley cutting
wood on q farm near Roxbury,
Conn.,, but first had to state his
business to an aged father:
"Perc," said the old man, Il
kinda like this Teller. Fetch out
the pitcher"
So Perc fetched the hard cider
and the three toasted the old
days while signing papers. Then
Guthrie produced $50 as a bin
der on the $3.50, which he ex-
planned, each of the 10 men
would receive. PEREZ" COM
manded the elder Beardsley,
fetch out the jug!"
In Boston, Guthrie found Otis
V. Merrithew, and in spite of
the difficulty of his search didn t
ask why the ex-corporars last
name appears as Cutting on
army records. Anyway, he's a
city truck driver now, and after
staying for dinner in a happy
househ Id the studio representa-
tive learned MerritheW's $3.50
would start the eldest of three
daughters in college.
In Lawrence, Mas =, Guthrie
next located Patrick Donohue.
No recollectable details. In Hol-
yoke, he wrote check to Joe
Konotski, mill worker and father
of six. Bernard Early, who was
Alvin York's sergeant, was
found in Hamden, Conn, wait
ing tables.
Into q dingy tenement in Man
hattan's Italian quarter went
Warmers agent to see Mario Mus
81, now a night Waterman. Re-
ceived with suspicion, Guthrie
finally was able to explain his
mission to Mussis sister-in-law,
who was called in from a neigh
boring flat to serve as inter-
prefer. The former hero was
alarmed and indignant when he
was offered $50. "It's some
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
EFFICIENCY MEANS
CONSERVATION

"Efficiency means conservation as
we'll as production" Thot memoroo'e
sentence was spoken by A. w. Hawkes.,
president of the Chamber Of Commerce
of the United States, in tolk OF me
18th annual dinner OF the Not'ono'
Boord of Fire Underwriters.
Every resource which is soved meons
q step toward national defense. Ana
eyery resource which is destroyed means
q showdown in building defense. Ihot IS
the reason for the vitol importance OF
fire prevention at this time.
ANY man knows what fire can do to
defense industries. A major fire in key
factory could delay the production OF
yitoI materials for weeks. Whot is not
we'll enough understood is the need tor
preventing fire even when no defense
project is directly involved. A home
burns, and must be rebuilt Thot means
that materials, labor, money and ct
fort may be diverted from other uses.
The slogan, "Americon defense
through fire Defense" thus hos reoI
meaning. And the wor k the fire insur-
once industry is now carrying on
against fire is among the most import
ant being done in the country. In the
words of Robert P. Patterson. the Un-
dersecretory Of War, The voluntary
services Of the established insurance or
qonizotions of the country ore without
poroIIeI among the many patriotic serv-
ices being rendered by our citizens in
the defense program. Fire insurance is
going "oll-out" to fight fire, and it is
getting results.
In this greet work, the help OF oil is
needed. No group can do it oIone Make
your home and business sofe against
fire-ond, in doing that, you will be
performing real service for your coun-
try in this time Of peril
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Mochodo de Assis Wos
Noted BroziIion Autho,

COMMERCIALISM is not the
~ only basis OF Pan-American
friendship. A knowledge Of the
culture of South America Is also
necessary for a true understand
ing.
One OF the great writers Of
Brazil. Joaquin Maria Machado
de Assis, was recently honored
philatelically by his government
in the 1910 stamp above comment
Grating the Tooth anniversary of
his birth.
Critics have called Mschado de
Assis Brazil's foremost novelist.
He was born in 1899. wrote poems
and plays as web a. novels.
Strangely enough, literary pur-
suits were only q sideline with
Machado de Assis. He worked rs
q typographer in his early youth,
later entered politics. He re-
manned in government for the rest
of his life, wrote only in his spare
time.
His early poems and plays at
tracted no attention. He started
writing novels when he was In his
forties and became famous. His
best work is Memorials Postumas
de Braz Cubas," written In 1881.
n describes life in Rio de Janeiro
during the latter part OF the 18th
century. Mschsdo de Assis died
IN looo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent


HOLLYWOOD - Whenever
an actual person, living or dead,
is to be represented on the
screen-and no matter in how
honest or favorable a light
studios have found that it's safer
TO secure and pay for signed
authorization from the indivi-
dual or his heirs.
That brings US to the hero
hunt preliminary to the filming
of Sergeant York" 1t seems
that Alvin York wasn't alone on
his epic adventure in the Ar
gonne Forest in 1918; he
was one of the detail
men, 10 of whom still live,
Warner Brothers wanted to be
able to identify those men, so
the company sent its location
manager, Bill Guthrie, to find
them.
The trip covered more than
5000 miles, required two weeks
of searching, and cost as much
as the complete production of
some motion pictures, but / also
like the story of the things that
Guthrie found.
HULL ON THE LINE
AS a warm-up chore, he first
went after and signed these
men: Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull; Gen. John j. Perish
ing; E. c. Danforth, Augusta,
Ga, insurance man and for
merly York's company comman-
der; J. M. Tillman, York's regi-
mental colonel, who now raises
oranges at Lake Wales, Fla;
Col. George Buxton, of Provi-
dence, r. l., who as a major
commanded York's battalion.
They were q cinch. Guthrie
then sought York's noncommis-
stoned comrades. He located ex-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
LOOTlNG PUBLIC TREASURES

What has hoppned to the pledges,
made by many high Officials sometime
oeo, to the effect thot oil non-defense
government spending would be rieidIy
curtoiled?
The unhappy truth is thot these
pledges seem to have been entirely for
gotten. The obnornol degree Of non-de-
fense spending which took place during
the depression is being corried on, de-
spite the foot that employment, in
comes, ond public purchasing power
ore rapidly rising as result Of the de-
Tense drive Congress hasn't mode q sim
gle importont cut in any bureaus
budget.
In short, defense spending is being
piled on top of non-defense spending
which holds close TO record levels
Only strong public protest con
change this disheortenine picture 1t
looks now os if Necessary defense costs
will exceed $4,000, 100000. They
probably will run much higher. A prom
inent Official sold recently thot he on
ticipoted q public debt Of $oO,OOO,-
600, 900. And in the meantime, waste
-reckless woste-ooes on, and prodi-
golity prevails in every field Of govern
nent, no matter how non-essentiol.
Congress is preparing to levy steeply
increased taxes on the people, 1t is
preparing to SOCK individuals and busi-
nesses to the limit Congress seems OIL
most entirely dsinterested in holding
tax increases to the minimum by the
simple expedient of reducing ovoidobIe
expenditures. II this selfishIy unpotri-
ofic political patronage policy con-
fipoeS the end will be disoster for US
oll, Snnd I've will deserve it for our indif-
pnent9 III permitting non-defense loot
~ ~ putljc treasures when resources
'Quld be conserved.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
in MIDST OF WAR---PEAcE

NNcfl OIS V'CC'H'9 w
who may hold the internal peoce OF the
Western Hemisphere in their honds.
Millions of people in both North ond
South America ore hoping thot they
will be obIe to work out q formula to
overt war between Peru and Ecuodor.
It is to the interest not only TO the
Peruvian and Ecuodoron peoples Them
selves, but to the peoples Of oil the
Americas, thot war be ovoided There
is enough war in the world today with
out having the peoples Of the West
ern Hemisphere at each others throots.
They ore oil sufficiently effected by
the sweep of the Second World War,
without warning among themselves.
The overooe North American will DO
we'll to toke no contemptuous tone to-
ward this border dispute which hos
caused i|I-feeIine between eouodor and
Peru for 100 yeors-it will not do to
soy, "a stupid row over few miles OF
JUNGLE" and let it go at that.
To Peruvions and Ecuodorions, the
fote Of the vost interior territory Of the
Oriente is Of utmost importance. 1t
lies in the over-the-mountoins hinter-
land of both; it is the outlet to the heod-
voters Of the Amazon; it is potentially
rich. Donze was not SO important to
Germany as the Oriente to both Of these
countries
The United Stotes itself came to the
verge Of war with Greet Britain over
our own northwest boundary OF q time
when it must have seemed to any Europ-
can stupid dispute over an untrod-
den wilderness.
Yet because cooler heads prevailed
than the ones which we're shouting
'Fifty-four Forty or Fight" the border
was omicobIy adjusted. and neither
country hos ever regretted it.
Thot is the Western Hemisphere
way, and while it is true thot the United
Stotes and many other American coun-
tries have not always adhered to it,
thot is the direction, thot is the COOL.
Only lost April Colombia and Vene-
zuelo adjusted border dispute as old
as that which now shakes Ecuador and
Peru, and did it omicobIy Panama ond
Costo Rico settled in the same month
the stotus Of a 3O,OOO-ocre disputed
troct. 1t can be DONE
We hope thot the United Stotes and
other American powers which have on
interest in peooe within the hemisphere
will be oble to devise formulas by which
these two South American countries,
both Of which ore on unusually friendly
terms with the United States, will be
oble to adjust their dispute without
shedding more blood in q world which
is olreody saturated with the blood Of
unoffendine men.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

of the rubber bonus, there are
premiums for making part
score or game in one hand.
In the early knockout
matches the teams play about
30 boards. The calibre Of the
competition being what it is.
there is little variance in the
scores made by the two teams
on most of the boards. The
match is often decided by a few
swing" boards, where the acct
dents of bidding or play break
in favor of one team.
Today's hand is a typical
swing hand. from the 1910 tour
nament. East's two-heart bid
was promptly doubled by
South. After taking the spade
ace, South gave North q spade
ruff. When South got in again
on the first trump lead, he
gave North another spade ruff.
Four trump tricks, the ace of
spades and two clubs set the
contract two tricks. 500 points.
The teammates Of this East
West, pair. sitting North-South
at the other table OF the match,
got into three no trump and
went down two. Declarer GOULD
not guess the diamond break.
When West turned up with a
second stopper In the suit, the
North hand was good for two
diamond tricks and nothing
else. The total swing against
this team, 600 points, was more
than the margin Of its final loss
mn ~ AsAa
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
COMBINING VACATION

oCHICAGO - Edwin Petersen
is spending his three week va
cation in Jail at his own re-
quest.
He came to court owing S64
in support payments to his di-
vorced wife but explained he
could pay nothing because he
had spent his money treating
tipplers.
Now | want to be cured,
he added. Last time was
there, they fixed me up for a
long time. but l need it again.
Judge Michael Feinberg SEN
fenced him to three weeks on a
contempt of court charge.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
BY WIN. z. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

The world championships
will be at stake in the 18th
annual summer tournament of
the American Contract Bridge
League at Asbury Park, N. j..
in August. These are the Mas
tiers Pair event and the Masters
Teams-of-Four.
The team event is straight
knockout; that is, the teams
are paired against each other
like the players in a tennis
tournament, and the loser Of
each dual il eliminated. Scor-
ing Is cumulative, like that OF
rubber bridge except that rub
bers are not played. Instead
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
~ PETER EDSoN
Dolly Monitor Washington
Coevespondont


WASHINGTON, July IS
To read the newspapers Of the
city of Washington, you might
get the ideo that the most i'm
portont function Of Congress
wos to govern the District Of
Columbia. More space is de-
voted to the eoines-on before
the d trict committees OF
Congress than oImost every
other subject. This is perhaps
excusobIe, for Washington is
otter all home to the "eliff
jewellers" the people who were
born here or who don't work
for the government.
Why Congress should have
TO bother with all these purely
local offoirs is something you'll
have to refer beck to the
founding fothers and the Con-
eress Of 1878, who figured out
this complex system of non-
local government. So Jorge do
these problems Of local govern
ment loom in the congressional
scheme of things thot every
Monday in the House is desie-
noted as District Day. Thot
doy the representatives. CORFU
gate their brows over prob
lens thot would be settled by
q body no more august than O
town council in any city OF
equal size. For sheer cumber-
someness, this gives Washing
ton not only the most unwieldy.
but oIso the most expensive
top government in the coun-
try-5OO senators ond repre-
sentotives at $4,000 O yeo'
eoch-worrying at times obout
such things os troffic regulo-
ton ond locoI tox rotes.
NO SHORTAGE OF COPS
Currently, the big worry is
the police problem. There ore
only six police forces in Wash
inoton now.
There is the Secret Service.
the Federal Bureau Of lnvesti-
COTTON Of super-snooper 0-mer
under J. Edqor Hoover, which
hos its headquarters in Wosh-
ineton but doesn't bother with
local crimes.
There is the National Pork
police force under Secretary
Of the interior Harold Ickes
which poIices the greet oper
spoces, and the Copitol police
force Of congressional potron-
oee oppointees. which stoys
ground the halls of Congress:
to keep the tourists from tok-
ing the Capitol oport for SOU
venirs. There is the Public
Buildings Administration
force, which guards the build
ines the CopitoI police don't
and finally, the District police
force Of more than 400 men.
This list Leaves out the post
al inspectors. the internal rev.
enue oeents, the border Potro!
the customs inspectors, the T.
men of the Treosuy's marco
tics and secret service counter
feitino divisions, the Marine
Corps, the mlitory police ono
the Army and Navy intelli'
eence sections, but even with.
out these you would think thot
Washington should be the best
poIiced city in the world. Or
the contrary, it is sod to relote
thot your country's eopitol ho:
O police scondoI os juicy O!
anything ever turned UP.
TIE the District DOlice force
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON

that oil the shouting Is obout,
particularly the detective force
ond the homicide squod which
hove had 70 violent d q tn
coses to deoI with since June
]. including six murders Gull
minotine in the horrible ottock
on government worker Jessie
Elizabeth Streiff O few weeks
o9o.
A subcommittee Of the
House District Committee Is
now conducting an investioo-
tion in true congressional hear
inos fashion with the net result
thot the superintendent of Dis
triet police. Maj. Ernest w.
Brown. will probably be retired
and the detective bureau will
be upheoved.
Testimony before the in
vestiootine committee, includ-
ing admissions by the police
officers themselves, revealed q,
police organization as foulty
as ever existed. The seven men
on the homicide squad, one
lieutenant and six sereeonts,
have regularly been coIIed off
their duties to do petrol duty
in squod cor, help guard the
President, and do troffic duty
on porodes. All the good men
got out of the detective bureou
because it offered no chance
for advancement and was spied
upon by on internal eestopo
that wrecked morale.
HUEY LONG
GANG BUSTER
The man really responsible
for lifting the lid off the Wash
ineton police scandals is one
Of the men largely responsible
for lifting the lid on the Huey
Long scondoIs in louisiono.
He is F. Edward Hebert (pro-
nounoed ove-beor), q fresh
man in the House, and q MEM
Der Of the District committee.
Two years oeo Hebert was
city editor Of the New Orleans
States under its fighting editor,
Moi james E. Crown, who
turned up the now famous pho
toaroph Of q Louisiono stote
university truck delivering
public materials TO the privote
residence Of O colonel on the
stoff Of the Louisiana Cover.
nor.
All the energy which Hebert
Displayed in exposing the
Louisiono mess have gone into
his expose Of Washington po-
lice. Demanding the investioo-
ton, Hebert hos served on the
special congressional sub-com-
mittee. for q time presiding,
fIoyine witness otter witness.
uncorkino the whole mess. just
os he did ia Louisiono.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
10 YEARS AGO TODAY

Mr.. and Mrs. L. F.. Wolf, Lin
coin avenue. have as their
guest, Mrs. Mary Rapelje, Of
Detroit.
The Rotary camp committee,
consisting of ID Rotarians. met
for dinner at the camp, at six
o'clock, yesterday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

1896
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Kirby are
living in their Covered Wagon
at one of the small lakes near
Flint, this summer. Mr.. Kirby
was recently transferred from
Mount Clemens to Flint. He is
administrator Of direct relief in
this district.
The members Of the Com
bination Dinner club will be
entertained at the home of>Mr.
and Mrs. Byron Stuck, South
Wilson boulevard, on Friday
evening of this week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

There have been several dis
graceful midnight rows on our
streets that last week, and II il
about time certain 'rowdies'
were sent up.
One OF the tenants in the
Kuhn block is laying IN waiting
for the 'peeping Tom with
gun. He had better look sharp.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
SLOW ON THE DRAW

OFAIRBANKS, Alaska : Al
bert G.. Farr's number was the
first out of the hat, but con-
scription was too slow to catch
him.
He enlisted in the army sever
al months ago and now is at
Fort Richardson, Anchorage.
There was q long period be-
tween the first Alaskan selective
service registrations and the
draw because of time required
to get registrations in from out
lying regions.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

The Lake Orion Bible Con-
ference is from July 26th to
August 5th inclusive.
It is said that denatured alco.
hol will be a natural by-pro-
duct of the beet sugar mills.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15

BALLOON BILLETS-DOUX
oFORT SHERIDAN, III. - The
Workmanship of ROTC cadets
firing machine guns at rubber
balloons in anti-aircraft drill left
something TO be desired.
THE Sheridan" post news
paper. says this was the reason:
Lonely cadets were attaching
notes to the balloons asking
lovely lad1cs hereabouts' to
write TO them.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

Some of the local boys got
into q faro bank here last night
to the tune of two hundred dol
lars.
Above the door Of a restaur.
ant in Detroit Is the significant
sim "Meles at Al Hours. This
nsd6hboring community
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15

oltom doGo not consist of saying nasty
ont u,osB ytu dislike
wupkia COP. presidential csndi-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-15
10 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

1901
You can pay taxes without
percentage until the middle OF
September.
Fifty-one teachers received
certificates after the last ex-
aminations.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-04

UlLTS do not belong to any
~ one period and there doesn't
seem to be the slightest indication
that the old art of making them is
dying out. Most quilts today are
planned as bedspreads and have a
color scheme to harmonic with
other decorations. If variety of
figured scraps are used in the
piecing, one dominant plain color
is generally repeated in each
block to give the design unity.
Again, one color is combined with
white throughout the entire quilt.
Some quilts have elaborate pieced
borders; others are finished with a
band of white with the dominant
color used as an edge binding. A
bias striped material makes the
binding Of the quilt in the Whirl
Wind pattern shown here.
The beauty Of any quilt is en-
HANGED if it is set of with a val
ance around the bed. They knew
that in the days of the four-poster
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-04
LYNN SAYS:

Baking potatoes is perhaps the
most healthful method Of prepar-
ing them, because steam escapes
from them and results in q mealy
product. No valuable minerals
are lost, and, if the skin is also
eaten with the contents, all bene-
fits Of the potato are realized.
II you are not quite ready to
serve your potatoes when they
are ready to come out OF the
oven, cover them with a towel so
that moisture will be absorbed,
and at the same time warmth
will be retained.
Sweet potatoes bake in less
time than white potatoes.
1t is important TO retain vita
min G in potatoes, as well as in
all vegetables. In order to do
this, store them in a cool place;
peel just before cooking; cook
whole, II possible; have the water
boiling rapidly before plunging
them in; use . small amount Of
cooking water; cook only until
tender.