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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19

A year oeo the United Stotes owoke
70 recollection thot it was playing the
Nozi game in lotin America, and play
ing it unconsciousIy. A large percent
oee Of soIes Of U. S. goods wos funnel
ing through German agents and job
bers, most of whom we're doing Axis
work.
Something hos been done. More than
1000 U. S. accounts have already been
taken away from oeents in Latin Amer
leo whose synpothies or activities or
both we're onti-Americon and pro-Axis.
More will be similarly removed and
paoced in new hands. The American
blacklist now contains 5000 names.
II is harsh business-not the kind Of
business the United Stotes likes. But
the conduct Of Germons in the Ameri-
COS left no choice.
We like to think Of business as bust
ness. When others make business poll
TIC, they ask for q political retoIiotion.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
~ PGTeR sgDsoN
Deity Msaltes Wssl,i a0tea

SoSeooD00000
sWASHlNGToN - A moio.
or1umsnt Is DEVELOPING In
Washington over the prodic-
ton Of Donald N. Nelson. d.
rector Of purchases in the or
flee Of Production Manage
nnent, that before this effort
is over, there will be shortooes
Of food"
If British demands increase.
II Russio destroys her grain
fields, If Europe goes into q
peroid Of famine and must be
fed for several yeors by the
Americans. then moybe the
prediction might come true.
But no one can see that far
oheod. and in the meantime,
oil the other food supply ex-
perts are denying vehementIy
that there ore any Shortages
in sight.
Whot these other food men
feor most is that unworronted
tolk Of shortages may send
wholesalers into the market to
stock up with reserves, thereby
creating an orfificiol food
shortage mad higher prices.
Extra demands on the y. S.
food supplies have been ire
mendous. The total food bill
for GAL has been estimated at
SIS billion, which is IS per
cent or So billion more than
the food bill for 1910.
Thot increase represents not
just higher prices, but in
creased quantities - for the
British. for the army, for relief
and for extro soIes just because
poyrolls are higher and con-
sumption greater. Up to q GER
tain level, the more you make,
the more you cot. Also, the
more you cot out the more it
costs you.
You might think the in
creased size Of the Army and
NoAu would mann a million oy
more eaters had merely been
transferred from the civilian
to the military tobIes but it
doesn't work that way. Take
eggs. Army menus coll for eggs
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
'hgvR JooLAr

]. pvsr too Iote to do good thing
So1N4e1F!es It's too late to achieve moxi-
l.nen GOOD BY the good oct. Neverthe-
zoss better lote than never.
Jokob Mabel feels thot way. He's
{pp)yino for American citizenship.
plsch hes lO6 years old. Mabel
1tp CleveIond in l864, fought with
Union army, was wounded, return
f lived in the United Stotes until,
L. hos lived here longer than
le Who ore motive. Now he
ocoms a Citizen.
oot3 He Woods without
~ drinks, eats, and is as
esvUw undsv q sprinkler
tunoIly. ~ thino he's
q doy too eoon. A.
1utuFe to consider.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19

the Menjou shoes, boots, leg
gings, CATERS and spats. There
are several hundred items, all
perfectly kept and few brand
new.
Across the hall from the shoe
department is a roomful of
sportswear and equipment. Ev-
erything from pith helmets to
scarlet riding coats, ski suits to
bathing trunks.
Farther along the hall is a mir
rored lounging room where the
actors formal attire is kept.
Here are morning suits, top hats,
tail-coats, several shades of Tux
edos. scarves, gloves, canes, mess
jackets and all the rest.
In an upstairs room are his
business and lounge suits-about
100. And in an adjacent alcove
is a completely equipped haber-
dashery-shirts, ties, socks, soft
hats, handkerchiefs, underwear
suspenders, jewelry.
There are a few other rooms,
Of course, in which the Menjous
live.
l still believe that the most
fastidious man I know about is
Boris Demitroff. He's an actor
who sued Universal Studios for
S25, 1000, charging that a dirty
rope was used when he was
being hanged for a scene in
picture. The cast was dismissed
for failure to prosecute.
It's being told around town
that a group of up-to-anything
boys from a major studio board
ed a Japanese liner in port at
San Pedro, lifted $4,000 feet of
Nazi propaganda film bound for
South America, and took 1t to
their laboratory and made a
duplicate print. The original was
returned without anyone on the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
oMcKENNEY ON BRIDGE

ular because it gives all nom
Masters the best possible chance
to take a step up the ladder Of
national ranking.
Today's hand was dealt in the
Presidents Cup last year. 1t gave
some pairs an opportunity to
demonstrate excellent play The
opening lead was taken by the
ace of diamonds.
Then south cashed the top
spades, discarding a club from
dummy. He led a low club. West
jumped in with the king. West
returned the queen of diamonds
and South ruffed. Another club
forced out the ace. East exited
with the third diamond, which
South ruffed.
Easts failure to lead trumps
placed him with the king. De-
clarer now found a clever play
for his contract. After cashing
the jack of clubs. he led a third
spade for dummy to ruff low. A
low trump was led from dummy
and the finesse of the ia * held.
Then South led the fourth
spade and ruffed with the queen
of trumps. East over-ruffed, but
the contract was made. With
two cards left, II East led the
trump, the ace would PICK up all
adverse trumps and the spade
Jack would make. But the club
lead would let South discard the
Jack of spades and dummy's nine
Of hearts would shut out Vests
eight.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS

FRENCH INDIA and French
= Oceania have identified them
selves with the Free French move
ment of Gen. Charles de Caulle.
They have issued 81 PROFESSIONALS
reading France Libre" printed
vertically and iagonally in vari-
Gus colors.
The U. S. S. R. 4 issuing a new
f.kopec stamp picturing Krem-
lin clock tower as seen from the
Moscow river.
The annual Hitler birthday
stamp shows Herr Hitler In .
semi-profile with q military cap.
It is printed in deep crimson.
1raq, a Nazi objective due to its
oil resources, has issued nine new
stamps in a new series. The four
low value stamps show the famous
Lion Of Babylon. The Ave higher
values picture the Spiral Tower OF
the great Mosque at Samarra.
Railroad collectors will be in
terested in two new Mexican hori.
zontal oblongs. They show To-
connective and are for parcel post.
New issues: Egypt has issued .
new airmail stamp. showing
plane above the Pyramids. Portu.
gal commentaries the founding OF
It's Red Cross branch IS years ago
with four l5-centavos franchise
stamps. Thailand (Siam) has is
sued a series with the first pniia-
telic portrait Of Amanda Mahidoi'
l7.year-old monarch.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
NEA Service Staff Cerrespondens

HOLLYWOOD-The fact that
this Is neutrality-suspicious.
town makes all the more strik-
ing the foppishness of Adolphe,
the Magnificent Menjou. 1t
must be admitted that his fan
tastic wardrobe is great asset
though q doubtful compliment
to his acting career. You'll get
an idea of how much clothes
mean to him personally when
you learn that he has just built
a house for them in Beverly
Hills.
Menjou and his wife, Verree
Teasdale, live there too. The
place has the atmosphere of a
Bond Street tailor shop or a Park
Avenue haberdashery. They are
getting along fine, but under
other circumstances / think it
would be funny If an actress sued
for divorce and named top hat
as correspondent.
Back In the days when 1t was
considered important for movie
people to maintain an imposing
front, Menjou augmented his
personal elegence, by buying
22- room mansion in the Oak
Park region Of Hollywood. Even
with his wardrobe, which wasn't
SO extensive then, he and Miss
Teasdale ratified around in the
place, 50 they closed off about
two-thirds Of the establishment
and lived In one end of 1t. Men
jou tried to sell 1t and finally
did.
DOESN'T GO BAREFOOT
I haven't seen the new house,
but he told about it between
wardrobe changes-18 of them
on the set of Father Takes a
Wife" Off the downstairs hall
is a room entirely devoted to
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
CONGRESS MUST
RACE oNSlDll11Y

Nothing is harder or more unPIsos-
ant than to look q grove situation in
the foee squoreIy, decide whotneeds to
be done, and do it. -
Congress is just like the rest Of Us
in that respect. II il passes an occo-
sionoI buck, why that is no more than
the rest of US do But now the Presi-
dent and the chief Of stoff come to Con-
oress and tell it that in their judgment
the national sofety requires that many
men now in service for whotwos to have
been q year must remain longer.
Either this is necessary or it is not
Necessary. Congress must decide, and
must bear the responsibility for its de-
cision. 1t is not question to be de-
cided on sentiment. II not q question
to be evoded. It is q question to be
faced and decided
If it be true, as some critics have
overred, that the u S. Army has not q
single division ready for combat on the
European scale, then Congress must de-
eide now many such divisions it will
have when from some Of the regular
army divisions as many as 600 reserve
officers are sent home at the end Of
their year. 1t must decide how we'll
defended will be the outposts when
units which have been sent thither ore
decimoted by men sent home.
General Marshall, in his biennial re-
port, soys. Whatever we do for the no
tionoI defense should be done in the
most efficient manner"
Perhaps it would be the most eff
Gent way to persuade large numbers to
remain in service voluntarily, offering
Inducements in pay and conditions.
Perhaps it would be best to release
only those above 20.
Perhaps it would be best to send all
home at the end Of the year, though it
does coll to mind the federal troops
norchine up to the battle of First Bull
Run, who actually passed on the road
companies marching away from the inn
pending bottle because their three
month enIistments had expired. Wash
ineton, whose troops were always melt
ing away, also knew the problem.
Todoys situation must be squorely
foced. The people are prepared to &C.
cept any decision made by their elected
representatives.
They will not tolerate any passing Of
the buck, any failure to explore all as
poets Of the problem, any woverine in
deciding it resoIuteIy on the bosis Of the
national safety and welfare. Thot is
the kind Of cleor-cut decisions which
free countries must make to survive in
todoy's world
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
'OESN'T GO BAREFOOT
By VIM. e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

One of the most popular events
at the summer session of the
national championships In Au-
gust is the amateur pair event.
This Is better known as the Pres
ident's Pairs, because the tro-
phies are additionally donated
by the president Of the American
Contract Bridge League.
This event IL restricted to
players with less than 10 Master
Points, and is one o n test in
which there Is never q defending
champion, since victory makes
the winners Masters. It is pop
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
. BARBS

Some people are fenced off
from success by their own railing
Russia can't yet estimate the
amount of German motorized
equipment captured. Perhaps
they should just say, Tanks q
million"
In lots of cases m "old fame"
is one who has been told to 20
70 blaxe&
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
eBEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHING TON :

~ SA OUT $oVo0 orookvo9tSc ooy
50 per cent more eggs thor
these same men would eat IN
they were In civilian life. ToDko|
SOLIDS. Army menus call .foTse|
soIod q day with uncooked ven.|
etobles. Thot's a lot more sol
dds than you could make most
men cot II they were at hons.
Food for Britoin and other
countries nnokss a sixobIs Ok.
tro demand. Up to the last ID.
port Of lease lend odminisfro-
tion, Juno ] nearly $50 million
bod been oIIocoted for these
British food purchases. 40
proximotely $32 million went
tor poultry and dairy products,
$6 million for meat, $6 million
for fruits and vegetables, s.
million for eereois, $3.5 mil
lion for lard and SIS million
for miscellaneous items. Total
food purchases for foreign
countries may run to $500 mil
lion next year.
Surplus marketing Adminjs-
trotion has been doino most
OF the extro buying and it's op-
erotions will probably .equol.if
not surposs food purchases for
the Army and Navy, which ore
estimoted to totoI $500 million
for the year.
There Is q little evidence Of
these two biggest buyers not
working in the closest Of hor-
mony. SMA does q aood
bit Of distress buying to sup
port tagging prices. Naturally
it cont announce in advance
thot it Is going to buy a million
coses Of conned tomotoss, or
the price would immediately
rise. The OPM purchasing d.
vision is oIso q conny buyer,
and watches markets for sur
PIuses and distress prices. :,
SMA's purchases reoch
astounding totols in some cote
oorieS. From March Is "a I,Ifv
u. SMA hos bought, for ex-
l56 million pounds of
lord, Al million pounds Of dried
and frozen EGGS, ~ million
pounds Of cheese, $50 million
pounds Of pork, l22 million
pounds Of dried prunes, III
pounds Of dried beans,
AZ million pounds of cheese
and 50 on.
Anyway you look ct II, there
are no immediate shortoaes in
sight for the overoos dining
room table. Groins are ovoiI-
able in surplus. Beef and lamb
supplies ore reported odequote.
Pork may be Temporarily short
in the foil and winter. Hens
we're never more cooperative
and the egg and poultry sup
plies are breaking oil time pro-
duction records. EARLY spring
demands for more. vegetables
have been responsible for an
estimated 20 per cent incrtose
IN truck poteh oereoes. Dairy
products may in time be q little
shy for, like q nnochine tool, il
seems to toke two years to
manufacture q COW that will
give milk.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
FLASHES
OF
LIFE

NEW YORK-Murray Kaplan,
an attorney, hired a battery Of
other lawyers to help figure out
his part of an estimated $1,000
900 estate in which he was an
heir.
They found there was only
$4,000 and plenty Of claim
ants.
Kaplan's share finally boiled
down to $74,755, but
The lawyers want $50, 1000 In
fees, and Kaplan has turned to
the courts for a reduction, point
ing out, as it's plain to see, he'd
have been better off without any
inheritance in the first place.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19

II. Federation is in the air these days.
The world is gradually realizing that
a, Europe cut into little chiP-on-the-
SHOULDER political subdivisions, Boil.
konjxed Europe in short, was not good
Tor Europe and not good for the world.
The number of such countries was
increased by the World War. For in
.stonce. the old Austro-Huneorion En-
pire. political monstrosity though it
wus. hod q certoin amount OF justitico-
ton as an economic free trode oreo.
Splitting it into tiny divisions made
eoc, Of those divisions an economic tor
So unable to survive.
Hitler had something in his plan for
economic unificotion Of Europe. Whot
Europe and the world cannot permit is
that this unificotion be achieved by
force and solely for the benefit and og-
drondizement Of the Germon Reich. 1t
must be done voluntarily and without
sacrificing local free seIf-eovernment.
Hitler is utterly incapable of accom-
plishing it on any such decent basis.
The world has got to stop believing
that political freedom and local self
government necessarily mean economic
lsolotionisrn. The day is past when the
two must necessarily go together. It
is possible must be possible in fu-
ture Tor countries to maintain COM
Plete internal political independence.
and yet give up some previously scored
rights to set up the kind Of trode bor-
riers thot insure stroneulotion.
The United States is taking the leod
ia Some such plan for the small islands
Of the Caribbean Most Of these is
lords, ehronicolIy poor, depend for such
Weolth as they have on exports Of oeri-
cultural products. The war hos cut
them off from Europe's markets. They
are in desperate plight. Plans are in
the making for setting up customs
union between all these islands, the
United Stotes, and Britain
Meanwhile, more and more weight
is being placed behind the proposal to
lower and gradually eliminate toriff
barriers between the United Stotes and
Conodo, looking toward some doy per-
hops enloreine the olreody vast free
trade oreo of the United Stotes. Con-
odo's currency is already closely oIien-
Cd to that Of the United Stotes Why
not q common currency, suggest some.
Il would not necessarily involve poIiti-
colunjon.
1 The World War resulted in breaking
up Europe into small, suIIen, ontogon-
isticrnotionol fragments which succeed
ed ia don,ning up and running the free
How Of trode thot might have meant
prosperity for oil.
This war must result in the breaking
down OF economic barriers by reoIizo-
tior that political independence main
tcined at the expense Of economic sui
eide IS q deodIy deIusion
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .


FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1885
Miss Adele Flaherty, Of
Rochester, N. Y, II . guest at
the home of her sister, Mrs.
Frank ]. Ameel, North avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Sample,
of Royal Oak, will leave the
latter part Of next week for .
motor trip into West Virginia
and eastern points.
10 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1891
Mr.. and Mrs. Achille Van
Beversluys sail on the last Of the
month for q European trip.
Mrs. Emma VALPARAISO, Of Indi-
ana, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Fred Breitmeyer, Floral avenue.
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1905
Miss Josephine Roberts takes q
position in the Dickinson school.
DR.. Croman goes to Colorado
for a short rest-and recreation.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY
1901
Some people up there affect
to believe that they don't like
the delicate aroma emitted from
the heap of pulp at the Marine
City sugar mill.
Mrs. j. G.. White II taking In
the Pan-Am.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
The new Bay View Club il
having q series Of Thursday eve
ming parties where youth and
beauty meet.
Half q ton Of dynamite for
sale ut cost. See Smith and
Preussel.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1851
The lawn social At Mrs. Little's
tomorrow night viii have'a tent
Of fortune tellers - q special nj
traction.
Neorly 400 gallons Of Ice
cream were sold last month BY
6eeley. local rQstaurantsux.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
FISH COMES BACK


ELKHART, Ind.-Comss now
city Judge D. Russell Bontrager
with the story of the big fish
that got away but didn't stay
away.
On Birch Lake, Michigan, the
Judge hooked a rainbow trout
% inches long and weighing
seven pounds, three ounces. He
fought il IS minutes. Finally 1t
broke his flyrod and escaped.
Then the fish, evidently ex-
hausted, rose to the surface and
turned on one side.
The Judge borrowed . land
ing net and scooped it into his
boat.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
GOOD SAMARITANS
REWARD

MERRILL, Wis.--Sheriff's Of
ficers sought Elmer Schneider on
a worthless check charge but
couldn't fine. him in q two-hour
search.
On their way home the dep
uties- stopped when . man wav-
ed them down 10 ask help In get
ting his car out Of the ditch.
The mar seeking help was
Schneider. Deputies put him In
Jail.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19

OTTA.B-HAP-E
EYOT.l. Minn.-Eyota doesn't
owe an 1ota.
This small Southern Minnesota
village is free of municipal debt
after paying $4,000, the last in
stallment on its $1,000 well and
pump contracted fora year and
q half ago.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
HIM STITCHING

HIM STITCHING
ALBUQUERQUE stitch in
time saves q soldier lots of en-
barrassment - So Mrs. j. H.
Lynch is inaugurating a free
sewing service for men in uni
form. Office hours are from l
to 4 p. m. Wednesdays at her
home.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-19
LEGAL MUSIC

LEGAL MUSIC
SANTA FEE, N.M.-The state
young democratic band Is organ
izing again - without music
minded highway department en-
ployes. They formed the back
bone of the band until Sen. Carl
Hatch (D-NM) obtained enact
ment of q law barring federally-
paid workers from politics. The
band hasn't played since.
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. SERIAL STORY
MURDER IN CONVOY
COpYeIGAy. felf.
NEa SERVICE, INC.

at least You see. Greg, a sentry
spotted somebody on A deck and
promptly ordered the person TO
stop. Whoever it was began run
ming away. He shot once-high
then second time low. but the
wanderer had opened a deck door
and it stopped the bullet. Just
inside was an emergency switch
like an emergency lever on a
train. He yanked it and ran. The
sentry came through the door just
in time to see figure disappear
ing downstairs. He raced after
the figure to b and saw you alone
in the corridor. That was that"
Miley lighted a cigaret.
But that still doesn't explain
one thing" Rollins said.
What"
Just why you were apparently
resigned to stand for hours, per-
haps all night. behind the curtain.
II / had been pulling something
funny it's hardly likely that l
would be slipping around corridors
when | knew the whole ship was
on the watch for something"
Miley shrugged. Il was playing
a bunch. that's all. You'll notice
stairway from a deck comes
out a slight distance from where
was hiding"
We'll ,"
You'll boil IL I tell you"
Rollins felt that icy chill on his
spine again. Il won't boil let's
have it,
Miley leaned forward Il WAS
wondering. Rollins. If that nurse
would be sneaking downstairs TO
see you. After all ="
Rollins slashed a right cross
that caught Miley squarely on the
side OF the face. He pitched side
ways off the chair and landed on
all fours.
Get up, rat" snarled Rollins
Miley came shakily TO his feet
blood trucking from the side OF
his mouth.
The ship gave bad lurch 70
starboard. and Rollins went
slightly off balance. Miley slipped
int GA crouch and rushed him. A
hard left upper cut caught Rollins
squarely on the chin. Miley sank
a right in the midriff. and Rollin,
clinched.
Break clean. Big Shot" Miley
growled into the others ear.
Rollins pushed him away, his
face white with pain.
Miley weaved in again TO NEE,
a sharp left jab. Then they were
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