davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-05

survivor Of the four citizens of this
community that mad passed their
Goth year to pass away in I941 The
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-05

iirst was wrixham McIIvaine; sec
ond, Mrs. Mary Legates; third.
Dagsworthy D. Burton.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
SPEED, SPEED. SPEED!

Foster, foster is the tempo, and the
destroyer Edison is launched q bare 10
months and II days otter the laying Of
her keel.
This kind Of construction was done
in nine months during the war, but the
destroyers Of that time we're only two
thirds the size of the Edison, and far
less complicated.
twenty-five more Of the Edison
class are on the way, and the record
made on thot ship will probably be bet
tered.
There is no reason to feor that
America has lost the know-how. Our
ships will be good ships Our planes will
be good planes. Our men ore good men.
Time is the only thing the supply Of
which cannot be increased. But the use
Of it can be improved. And in the navy
shipyords they seem to be doing just
that.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
OUR EDUCATED ARMY

A bubbing|y enthusiastic story
from Moscow by Walter Duronty, who,
in his most recent visit, seems to have
been completely bowled over by the
beauties Of the Soviet Stote. tells how
educated the new Russian army is.
Thot's aside from the education it got
in Finland. The Russian soldiers are not
only good technicions, he exults; they
are educated, they will know what the
wars about if war comes.
Well, during the lost holt Of 1910.
the U. S. army received the following
recruits: 1888 with college degrees;
372 with postgraduate records; 55l4
with at leost one year Of college. There
were S.. 483 high school graduates and
81. $50 with grammar school education
these from totol Of l8O.l52 re-
cruits.
So il would seem that even the
United Stotes army is NOT going to be
precisely ilIiterote.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
Uranium .
oCRACKERS
RARE RADIUM

So scant is her supply of ra-
dunn and so great Is the dan
ger If it should escape its metal
containers, Britain keeps the
rare metallic element in special
bomb proof vaults underground
against the threat Of air raids.
Check your knowledge about
radium with these multiple
choice questions.
/. Which of these Is the most
valuable: (a) platinum; co.
inidium; (c) radium; (d) gold.
2. How much uncovered ra-
dunn is there in the world? (a)
IL ounces; (b) 2 pounds; (c) 100
pounds; (d) 5 tons.
5. How much Is radium worth
a pound? (a) $3.50; (b) $4,000;
(c) $4,000, 900; (d) 90 cents.
4. Which of these diseases is
treated with radium? (a) can
Ger; (b) influenza; (c) measles;
(d) tuberculosis?
5. Which Of these persons Is
associated with radium? Nine.
Mayo: (b) MINIS. Schumann-
Heink; (c) Nine. Curie; (d)
Nine. La Zonga?
Answers In Page 8
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Ponomo Again Controls
Oestinies Of Americas

FOCAL point Of western hemi-
= sphere defense Is the Panama
Canal. closely guarded gateway
between Atlantic and Pacific. And
thus Panama resains, to some ex-
tent, the importance in American
affairs the area possessed four
centuries ago.
The full story Of the Panama
Canal Is available TO philatelists
In the Canal Zone commemorative
set, marking the 25th anniversary
Of the opening Of the waterway.
Panama's stamp issues also con-
tain many pictures Of the canal
and its buildings. One Of the ia
vorite Panama issues, however, Is
the Olympic Games issue Of 1888,
which included the stamp above.
Panama was one Of the hrst dis
tricts Of the New World colonized
By Europeans. Six years after
Balboa's discovery Of the Pacific,
IN 1918. the city Of Panama was
founded. The colonial government
governed all territory from Mica
raCia 10 the Straits Of Magellan.
including Peru, Chile. Argentine.
Panama lost its importance with
the rise Of South American repub-
hes; Is the youngest. republic Of
the Pan American group. The ma
ton includes IN area Of 33,601
square miles. has population Of
approximately $4,000.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
Dy DRvcE CATION
!. Daily Meaitss w. lwstes
covvospoN6 eut

:. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -
There'Ii be a hot verbal wor
between the slumirum indus
ty and ths airplone industry
before long II the oirplone
makers don't quit blaming pro-
duction deioys, on q shortooe
Of aluminium.
Spokesman for the oIumin-
UNI industry insist there IS no
shortage Of aluminium meto'.
There is, they say. q frequent
delay in the delivery Of oluna-
mum foroines, which Is what
couses tho toIk Of an Alumni
UNI shortoee-ond which, they
add, Is often the fault Of the
oirpIone people themselves.
Aluminium foreinos ore
mode with dies. which have
to be cut by hand from the
most hieh-erode steel obtoin-
able. Cutting the die for sin
gle forging may toke as long
as six mcnths-it's such q
specialized job that one man
hos to do all of II from stort
to finish, It's impossible to
work men in shifts on it-and
the die may cost $4,000 or
more.
A couple Of years oeo, the
ordinary plane built in this
country used perhaps Q dozen
aluminium foreines. Today q
plane being built to military
order will use as many as ESQ.
Thus it may be neorly six
months after q plane company
gets . war department con-
tract before production Of its
foreines can begin. But that
isn't all. Eoch month Of the
war roises the standards for
military planes. A design foF
q model which hos been con-
trected for but which Is not
yet in production may be
changed slightly - and the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

king-queen-j jack In one suit,
which for years has been count
ed as one and one-half honor
tricks, will now be one-plus hon.
or trick. Finally provision
Is made for measuring the SOL
idity of hand and bidding 1t
more aggresively than q hand
that Is full of holes"
Culbertson's advice Is that
when your hand falls barely
short Of an opening bid. you
should count the number of hon
or cards ii contains-any ten
spot or higher card being an
honor card. II the hand contains
six or more honor cards. q plus
value" should be added to its
honor-trick count.
The new value given to sin.
gletons, and the count Of honor
cards, both contributed to the
total of three honor.tricks on
which South made his opening
bid on today's hand. II South
had not bid, North could never
have doubled the three no trump
contract.
Dummy's heart ace won the
first trick. The Jack Of dia.
monds was led and won by the
queen. South exited with .
club. The contract was set one
trick, the defenders winning
two hearts, two diamonds and
q club.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
. Hiehlights From
The Latest Books .
Don't overlook "Jennifer.'


II you're looking for escape
fiction, if you've had more than
your fill of modern war, factual
analyses, American historical
fiction, If you're book-hungry
for q good love story that packs
more than its share Of romantic
interest, suspense and genuine
enjoyment, try Janet Whitney's
"Jennifer" Morrow: $2.50).
Napoleon had just returned
from Elba when Jennifer began
to take an interest In the plight
Of children working long hours
in mills, and weavers, unem-
ployed for years. And she de-
veloped hate for the mill own
ers who grew rich from the
fruits of child labor.
She was hardly more than Is
when she became engaged to her
31-year-old cousin. handsome
naval officer Philip Trefusis, and
turned down the love Of her
childhood sweetheart, Christie
pher North. But Trefusis, be-
set by past indiscretions and
creditors, could not wait for
Jennifer's father to die natural
ly. Philip gave him ap over
dose of opiate. And Jennifer
dispatched the same medicine to
the mill owners wife.
So she found herself convict
ed of murder, on circumstantial
evidence, married In secret to
the real murderer, and on q
convict ship bound for Botany
Bay. New South Wales.
But Jennifer bore q charmed
life. She found friends where
ever fate took her. Not even
the sadistic cruelty of her mas.
ter, MacGregor, Sidney planta.
ton owner, could quell the. spir-
It of Convict 90.
And, Of course, Trefusis had
to come to Sidney, as aide to
the governor; and 1t was inevi.
table that the ever-faithful
Christopher should follow, and
that the whole affair be settled
in the fury of q convict riot.
Miss Whitney has done q ser.
vice In readers In preSentinG
this simple romance, fr1nged
with history, perhaps, but nevel
allowing background TO over
shadow central action nor char
acter. Jennifer's convict shiE
does not follow the usual pat
tern of torture and suffering, mol
are her years Of servitude harsh
"Jennifer" Is romance--noth
ing more. And It's swell read
ing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
. BARBS

A man Is known by the COM
psny he keeps from yawnihs.
An Illinois woman Judge held
court in her home. That's where
the women usually lay down the
law.
In Hitler's remark, II have
armed, and armed, and armed"
there was q Brit. sh touch. He
dropped his his.
Statistics show the weather
man about 80 per cent correct
leaving 20 per cent for the holt
days.
All the worlds q stage but ics
In America mainly that the cry %
act nowI
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
perately needs a job of real act

perately needs a job of real act
ing.
After failing to win the pros
titute's role, Miss Day was salts
fed to take a murder charge and
the leading role in 1.-THE Trial Of
Mary Dugan." Ingrid Bergman
will play Ivy.
Ann Rutherford, angelic inge.
nue., was delighted with the role
Of a girl no better than she
should be in pride and Pre-
judice." Marcia Hunt, who'd
rather hide her beauty in minor
character roles than play dull
little heroines, tried hard for the
part of the trollop in Waterloo
Bridge" AS you know, that went
to Vivien Leigh, who had dis
tinguished herself as the skirted
scourge of "GWTW."
THEY ROSE BY
PRIMROSE PATH
Wherever the primrose path
may lead In real life, 1t winds
upward in the show world. Many
Martin had q head start when she
came to Hollywood because she
had been doing q strip-tease and
singing suggestive song hit on
Broadway. Veronica Lake Is the
envy of all other stock-contract
actresses because she has step.
ped into the role of an comply
little hussy in II Wanted Wings
Marlene Dietrich owes hel
comeback to the dance-hall dame
In "Destry Rides Again" Ida
Lupino came back to prominence
by becoming magnihcently awful
in The Light That Failed"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
: BEHIND THE SCENES
M. WASHING ONe

chsnos nay esslly nson that
weeks Of work On dies hove
been wosted ard that entirely
new onss mist b mode
OF ntmen a
gseoss-
AZ this point the aluminium
people begin to talk about hu-
man errors.
Engineers are hunnon. As
somp!es Of the newly-mods
dies begin to reach the factory
lthess are lead samples. by the
way, run off to be fitted to-
oether into a foctory model be-
fore regular production be-
eins) It often develops thot
this part or that part is off by
q hundredth Of an inch or 50.
You can't do much to an olum-
inum forging. once you've got
II. Generally, II there has been
even q tiny error in design,
you've simply GOT to make .
new die. And when oirplones
are using 20 times as many
foreinos as they used to, the
chance Of getting such errors
Is naturally 20 times as greet.
There ore other kinds Of
mistakes, too. The aluminium
people tell of one company
which ordered q certain alum
mum alloy tubing for landing
gears. They got It, then report
ed that it broke every time they
tried to bend 1t.
"Of course II did," replied
the manufactures. 'You did
1T tell US you we're going to
bend it. so we used the one
kind of oIIoy which cont be
bent. Now we'll have to make
up q new lot for you Of q diff
ferent olloy."
Delsys In
Ordering
Lastly, there are delays in
placing orders. Aluminium in
dustry people assert thot in one
recent wideIy-publieized cose,
where officioIs Of on oirplone
company announced their pro-
duction was being held up by
q shortage of aluminium, that
company's order for aluminium
foreipos was received at the
factory on the day the "olum-
inum shortage" stotement was
given out.
Funniest cose Of all, though,
comes from the shipbuilding
industry. One shipyord put in
an order for a big quantity Of
sheet aluminium, and insisted
that it absolutely had to have
IL right away. The stuff was
needed to make the crows
nests for q set Of new destroy
ers.
when ore these destroyers
to be deIivered?" the yard wos
asked.
"Oh," was the reply, "We're
going to lay the keels next
July"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
IS PASS A LAW ALWAYS THE
BEST WAY?

Sert0tniy OF t1IS OIle VVVv9 OH WIZ
oaree: II is highly undesirable to have
strikes at this time. especially in indus
tries directly concerned with defense.
The immediate reaction Of some Peo-
pie is simple and direct: Lets pass
law prohibiting strikes"
But it isn't that eosy 1t never is. We
must stop and ask the questions: 'Will
such law. If posed, accomplish the
good result sought" will it have other
resuIts?" "Whot results"
Nobdy thought to ask those ques-
tions when it come to notionol prohibit
ton. The country wanted to end drink
ina. The law didn't do it. 1t started, on
the contrary, lot Of other things
So with strikes. Nobody wants
strikes So it is proposed: Just Poss q
law against strikes" But fortunately,
some thinking is being done about this.
Some of that thinking hos been done
by committee Of so conservative an
organization as the Chamber Of Com
merce Of the United Stotes. And that
committee has submitted q report to
the chamber for approval. 1t hos found
that q law against strikes is not the
means to produce what all want,
strikeIess defense program.
Soys this committee:
.onti-strike laws will prove in
effective and will deny Fundamental
rights to our citizens -. the public in
terest will best be served by voluntary
cooperation"
This committee found that loss Of
mon-hours. due to strikes in 1910 was
approximately half thot of the 1889
period. This showed that increasing
public opinion demanding no Interrupt
ton to the defense program was doing
the job.
A country which cannot trust
it's working people voluntarily to back
up program is in hopeless cose to be-
gin with. There is an essential differ
ence between "drofting labor" and
drofting soldiers, which many, in the
passion Of q moment, forget. The
soldiers are given by all the people the
solemn trust Of defending their country
in arms. The "drofted" industrial en-
pIoye is still working for private en-
pIoyer who is presumed to be operating
his business for profit. To compel q
man, or men, to work for such an en-
pIoyer is little better than slavery. 81
Should such compuIsion be intro
duced, it would result in an inevitable
demand that the business for which he
is compelled to work be public bus
ness, operated solely by and for the pub
lie. On no other grounds is compulsion
ustifiobIe. And that the proprietors Of
business do not want.
The chambers committee has done
q service in calling attention to the real
implications Of proposed law whose
proponents have not stopped to think
the natter through.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04

lowed was a sensation even in
that pre-Hays Office day.
Miss Granville we'll knows the
advantages of screen iniquity
She began her career as the hell
child of These Three" and was
cheered as a dramatic prodigy
Cast In ordinary teen-age parts,
though, she Immediately began
skidding toward obscurity. Old
enough now to play fem nine
leads, and in danger of becoming
just another pretty face, she des-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
m FROM THE RUINS

y BE nome Of Coventry has oIreody
ppgne synonym for the terrible de-
1ctiveness OF air war. Coventry got
MI nbino at its worst.
w Wtot is happening in Coventry,
ut Ire worst hos come and gone?
b f1 men there pIonning its re-
sprne Of them ore soyino that
ttion, horrible though il was,
HIM some good results. Many
ms destroyed, according to
- Guardian, were Till
pced, and overcrowded. I"
36nod and plonned
1 NE q newer and
5ivino con come,
&pest tram mis-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

Parson Davies. of Chicago. end
Fitzsimmons, the great Antipo-
dean pugilist. are at the Avery.
Titzsimmons is q big, raw-boned
fellow, who clearly outclasses
Dempsey.
william Dulac and William
Fleumer, Jr., were elected vice
president and secretary-trsasur-
er Of the Sheal Water Trahspor-
tation Co.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
80 YEARS AGO TODAY

Rev. John haywood, the fam
Gus, once pastor Of the n. =.
church in Richmond, r now edit
Inn the Backwoodsmah, ut Bad
Axe. Our exchanges are debat-
inc whether II II . fall from grace
or not.
The Presbyterian sleigh ride
saturday wos : huge sffair and
greatly snioyed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04

This 10 the second Of q series OF
re articles on the neto bidding
rules IN the 1871 .CHlbcrtsow sys.
tenn. tchich rill be officially pub
lished March 4.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
BY WIN. 3. McKEENEY
Americas Card Authority

In addition TO counting q sin
gleton as q "plus value" In the
honor-trick table, users Of the
Cubertson System in 194l will
no longer count one full honor
trick for a king and queen in
different suits. The combination
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
I5ggD ooM BEGINS TO BE
AUDIBLE

r. wos slow to stort. The billions were
A opproprioted. Even appropriated bill
lions cannot be spent as you would
spend q dime for q hamburger But the
spendino which began Lost year is now
having its effect.
Let's run through some Of the over
tones which can be heard in the hum
that means an industry beginning to
trovel at high speed:
INCOME payments to individuals
last year totoled ST., 3OO.OOO,OOO.
which is more than any year since 1880,
and about s per cent above 1889, &C.
cording to Secretary Of Commerce Jesse
Jones.
THE NUMBER Of unemployed has
been drosticoIIy reduced. The National
industrial Conference Board believes it
IS now about 6.o6l 900, though the
Alexander Hamilton Institute puts it
roughly million higher. Both ogree
that the number Of unemployed is ro-
pidIy being pared down.
GOVERNMENT and privotely-fi-
nonced building hos accelerated to
such an extent that government hous-
ira authorities now believe 100000
dwelling units will be built during this
year, as oooinst 545, 900 last year.
Every new defense plant required new
liousino for its workers, ormy comps
hove stimulated demand for houses,
roised rents, brought about repoirs.
FAMILY income is rising. The
Northwestern Notionol Life Insurance
Compony soys that the household OF
HE overoge urban worker saw its
monthly income soar nearly 81 in the
last six months Of 1910, while house,
hold expenses remained at 1896 levels.
The favorable margin between average
earnings and living costs is the Iorgest
In the eight-yeor history Of the index.
There has been q tremendous increase
in buying power in recent months.
OFFICIAL figures ore now in, in
foreign trode for 1000 totoI Of ST.
on, 000, 900, the largest since 1929 in
both volume and value.
ONLY the stock market remains in
different, with prices slumPing and the
volume Of soies 50 small that President
Mortin recently told the SEC thot the
Stock Exchange is actually operating at
oloss.
There is no reason why all these ten
dencies will not increase in tempo
throughout the coming year. The press
! i1Q need for defense materials Of oil
kinds, plus unlimited access to the fed
Arunt nltrse assure thot. borrino some
unforseeobIe event.
Once more let il be repeated: this
indicates no permanent solution Of our
economic problems. But it is q breath
ina spell during which wise men ore be-
ina offered an opportunity to plan fu-
{ ttire 50 designed as to toke up the shock
when this ortificoIIy-induced boom is
DETECTED. More such men. both in and
out Of octive business, are seriously 3D.
dressing themselves to the problem
evssy doy. In that lies the best hope Of
On ORDERLY solution.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
o FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
I'VE YEARS AGO TODAY

Lily Pons In the movie Il
Dream Too Much" was more OF
q nightmare than q dream.
The Ford Dixie Singers, color
ed octette of Detroit, will appear
at Turner chapel, CINE. church
on Friday evening.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04

Is YEARS AGO TODAY
1906
Codde, the dry cleaner, Is now
located In his new plant on New
street.
The Rapid will discontinue
that wonderful new trestle at st.
Clair end will cross the Central
1t par.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

Advertisements for bids on the
new courthouse are running In
current publications.
Mayor STREET. urges support OF
Boy Scout movement In q pro-
clamation.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
% YEARS AGO TODAY

The Rochester sugar factory
will have to plant 1900 acres Of
Its own to make up the necessary
acreage.
DR.. Wilson now has a half in
terest in the Monroe Casino.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondents

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 4-The
old saw about virtue being its
cwn reward never was truer than
it is in Hollywood these days.
There's mighty little compensa-
ton for actresses who 60 In for
.characterizations Of purity, and
the business L. cluttered with
good girls who have been smoth-
cred by sweetness and light.
Meanwhile, the wages of cinema
are going up, and the bad babes
are getting most of the stellar
roles End publicity.
Only indirectly do morals fig
ure in the desirability of screen
parts. It's simply that scenario
writer's are not able to make vir-
tuous ladies interesting; there's
no shading In these characters,
and consequently there is little
acting to be done. On the other
hand, authors always can put
plenty Of soul-searins, high-ten.
sion emotionalism into the roles
of harlots, hussies, leeches and
she-heavies.
GOOD GIRLS ALL
WANT TO BE BAD
You'd be surprised at how Gag
erly these parts are sought, and
by whom. Bonita Granville, just
now turned Is and as thoroughly
nice q kid as you'd find between
Western Avenue and the ocean
eagerly tested for the role Of
Ivy in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" Did very well with the
test, too. Another who wanted
the same assignment was LARAMIE
Day, q youngster Of conspicuous
decorum and stern religious con-
victions.
Metros 1892 filming Of the
Jekyll-Hyde story won an Acad-
envy Award for Fredric March
and made Miriam Hopkins q
screen star. AS the Ivy of easy
virtue, she lured the doctor to
her room, and the scene that fol.
Evening star., 1941-02-09

Joan and Brent watched But there jewels inside just
roll of yelowed parchment Maybe it tells where there's
some gold hidden, Trotter mumbed Here let me
read it,
Cautiously, he unroled the brittle stuff holding that
the freight fell on the close written lines.
Almost at Joan knew something wrong Troer's
eyes narrowed angry his face twisted in snarl rage and
disappointment.
What ? Joan asked Whats the matter Mr. Troter?"
He dropped the parchment and snatched up the hatchet
Natter I'll show you what's the matter He laid of the
coins upon rock and cut fairly two with single savage
blow One glance the shc edge and he started crsng
There Look He held out the bit of metal and Joan could
that it not solid gold but merely thny plated Coun
teeit that's what it rotten damnabe joke! Lsten He
picked the parchment and read to hem his grating
with anger
To my Carlos, Juan andPhip, or whose of their
spawn may find what have buried here, greetings!
Knowing the temper of these my sons, know the
in blood and fury OF the moment when this chest stands
revealed Each of you will wish to have it all and not share