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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Defense
Hobby for
Bank Chiefs
BY WARD SCHULTZ

EXECUTIVES of the National
- Bank of Detroit are capable
Of safeguarding their customers
deposits in more ways than one.
Not content with one of the
finest bank police forces in the
country. the officials themselves
have taken up pistol shooting in
q big way and some have devel-
oped into crack shots.
What started out to be just a
hobby has developed into serious
competition among the vice
presidents, assistant vice presi-
dents, cashiers and other bank
officers. Many have purchased
their own guns and we don't
mean % caliber target pistols.
either. They shoot regulation
police model .3S specials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Lieutenant Snyder cen.
soring a film. He has a
whole iheater just for
himself. ashtrays handy
for guests who smoke.

classed Il as a "B" film il Sny-
der's cuts were followed.
AS censor Snyder has once or
twice been tricked by unscrupu-
lous agents. He knows it and
is sure it will not happen again.
Here are some of the ways
agents got questionable film
past him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Can't Walk Out

He's the only man in Detroit
who can't walk out if he doesn't
like the show. If he did he
would probably be fired.
For Charles w. Snyder is De-
troit's movie censor and if any
thing reached the screen that
was Immoral, indecent or OBJ
scene," Snyder would be at
fault. therefore subject to dis
miSsal.
Snyder misses the excitement
that went with the homicide
squad but he likes his new job.
He would like it better if the
only pictures made were about
cowboys, but then he can always
run a western film through twice
if he wants.
Detroit's censor has seen T.
303 miles of film since he took
over the job which, when shown
at the rate of go feet a minute.
would take up It's hours of his
time.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
No Trouble With Majors

From all that film he has had
to cut very little-mainly be-
cause the major companies keep
their films clean. His trouble
is with some of the smaller conf
panies who produce inferior
pictures.
Officially his job is concerned
with Detroit alone but since
many of Michigan's owns and
cities have no censor. he is called
upon by police chiefs to make
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
O. KS Baby Film

The lieutenant believed that
Birth of Baby was an edu-
cational film and. despite pro-
tests from some citizens, passed
it for showing in Detroit. He
insisted, however, that it be run
as a single feature because tied
up with another movie it would
leave the educational class fer
the entertainment class, thereby
becoming "salacious."
Snyder is helped in his work
by the Legion of Decency, which
sends its recommendations and
findings on films to him.
Strange Cargo" was one of the
films classed as a &C. picture
by the Legion.
After Snyder's cuts, however.
the Legion Of Decency re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
II Three-Man Teams

The banks target range,
sound-proofed and located in the
basement of the National Bank
Building, is set at so feet as
compared with the Detroit police
<0-foot distance.
The bank officers have organ
led y three-man teams and
their captains are as follows:
oiEnts-Elbert Burns EagIes-Ean Miller
Bears-Ray Murray YAnkees-Henry
Hawks-Alfred T. Hubert
Wilson Tigers--Johu Walsh
Lions-Alvan Red Wings-Walter
Macauley Jr. Tnuettner
Yackers-Scott Brlins-Edward
Carpenter Rogers
Eangers-Don Cubs-Ottmer
Valley Waldow
Scores are tabulated and
weekly bulletins are issued. Two
rounds of five shots each are
fired each week in competitions
but many a lunch hour is cut
short for a practice session.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Police Censor Snyder al his
desk. He records every film.

recommendations on certain
films.
Most controversial of the films
that have passed through Sny-
der the past six years were
Birth of a Baby" and Strange
Cargo"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Thwarts Schemers

Since the agent knew when
his film was scheduled to be
screened by the censor, he also
knew the exact time the ques-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Sees 'G.W.T.W.' Twice

Snyder names Gone With
The Wind as the best movie OF
the past six years. It's the only
one that he went to a theater
TO see.
Mrs. Snyder, who is accus-
toned to going to the theater
alone. was quite flattered when
her husband offered to escort
her to see &c. w. T. W." He ex-
planned that he liked it, wanted
to see it again.
She will never go with him
again.
He fell asleep.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
He Checks Miles
of Film to Keep
It Clean

tionable part would reach the
screen. A few minutes before
this part was to be shown Sny-
der would be called to the phone
and when he returned the ques-
tionable part would have passed.
Now when Snyder leaves the
room, the film is stopped by the
projectionist until he returns.
Another trick was to make
two reels of a sequence. When
Snyder saw the film it was abb
solutely passable, but when it
reached the movie house, one
reel had been substituted for
one of those he had seen. Now
he has spoilers" check the
film in a house that might use
such tactics.
Although some theaters use
For Adults Only" designation,
Snyder assures parents that
they may take their children
right along. He claims that
anything that he has seen is all
right for youngsters.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
PASTORAL PlLGRIMAGES

For from being outmoded, the 80
ciobility rum" when motorists of an
eorIier doy donned gloves, goggles and
linen busters to visit briefly at towns
and villages along prescribed route,
hos been revived by rural folk for their
own pleasure and profit.
With wheot crops harvested and
corn owotin9 autumn picking, scores
Of rurol families, members of Farm b.
reous or kindred organizations, are
taking advantage Of the romentory
lull in form work, quietly making plans
to go "o-visitine" Over sonded or all
weather roads, in contrast to the
bumpy, dusty highways Of the early
motor oee, they will be whisked from
tormsteod to formsteod, Inspecting
sleek livestock being eroomed for stote
or county foir, viewing with form-wise
eye the barns. siIos, machinery sheds
ond ouxilory buildings that comprise
the modern agricultural plant
Meanwhile, the member from Dry
Greek will discuss crops with his sell
DOM seen Acquaintance from Libertv
Ridge; AZ members will swop juvenile
opinions, while housewives describe
their fovorte woys Of mokino sweet
picked peaches or watermelon pre-
serves.
Brief. profitable programs, with
perhaps speaker or two from q neorbv
stote college, will be arranged for the
monday stop, otter which (hovino
made inro0ds into huge stocks of fried
chicken. pototo salad, etc. the motor
code resumes its journey to other FORMS
In the central portions Of the United
Stotes such tours, Of course, ore not in
hibited by any gasoline shortage.
BY offordine on insight, however
brief, into the agricultural methods of
successful husbondmen, these bucoIic
inspection tours odd something TO the
service performed by the county fair.
At the foirs one may see bIue-ribbon
livestock without obtaining much in
dicotion Of what was done to win the
loureIs. But when the ambitious ruroI-
ist, obtaining "form-eye" view,
learns thot his fellow formers prize
winning cottIe resulted not from some
feot Of oororion Ieoerdemon, but come
about as the result Of corefuI FEEDING
and in surroundings 40 better than his
own, his brief "doy off" may contribute
to yeors Of financial security-Chris-
tion Science Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
100, 900 VOLUNTEER
NURSES AIDES

Within the next year the Red Cross
plans to train 100000 volunteer
nurses aides. The nursing facilities
of civilian hospitals ore already serious
Iy strained, what with increasing de-
monds fror, the militory, public health
ond hygiene services. Should q great
emergency come, q brood, speedy ex-
pension in hospital beds might be re-
quired, and though many subsidiary
hospital workers have had some troin-
ing through MA, WPA, and other
agencies. they would not be enough to
meet q greet emergency quickly So
q volunteer program for nurses aides
is plonned. designed to increase the ef-
fectiveness Of existing trained nurses
by supplying qualified assistants who
can work under them. Physically fit
women between 8 and so with hiqh
school education or its equivalent
ore wanted. Local Red Cross chapters
and hospitals will coIIoborote in qivino
the courses.
Lots Of women who have been ask
ing, What con ! do?" may find on an
swer here
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
BEATING SOMETHING
WITH SOMETHING

Those who have been feorfuI Of the
odvert Of sociolized medicine would do
we'll to look at the CIeveIond HospitoI
service Association, through which
5OO. GOO people protect themselves
qoninst the chance Of sudden hospital
espense. Just as in insurance, the MEM
bers poy Q snolI regular premium;
shenzif hospitol service is required, the
qssociotjo, pays.
he plon hos been under way, con-
1eontiy growing, for seven years. it hos
su(plta and everybody, hospitoIs,
4eeFe - city, ord the members. find
d1ll,ose seven years, one hos
~ heen paid more than q
0thers in proportion to
80 IO0,0 600 coses have
yheouoh the ossociotion,
~ lessenino Of worry tax
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
MIND YOUR
MANNERS

|. When should tennis play
ers change courts?
2. If you think that tennis
net has slipped in the middle Of
set is it al! right to stop and
measure it?
3. If you serve ball and
your opponent is unable to re-
turn it because a dog runs on
the court, what should you do?
4. Are white shorts correct
FOR both men and women on a
tennis court?
5. If you are receiving in a
game of tennis and are uncer-
tain whether or not the ball is
within the service court, should
you call it a ball or good?
Answers
l. After every odd game in
a set.
2. Yes. The correct height
at the center of the net is the
length of the racket pluse its
width.
3. Serve it over.
4. Yes.
Good
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23

The white sidewoII tire for outomo-
biIes is doomed for the period Of the
emergency They require two pounds
more of crude rubber for each tire, and
we have more urgent things to do now
with those II, 900. 900 pounds Of crude
rubber each year, to soy nothing Of the
zinc used in the colorine.
No white sidewalks, with all their
chic smortness!
Yet the human spirit is infinitely
adaptable. 1t should be possible to con-
trive way to make life beoroble. even
without s;dewoIl tires.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

former president of the women
national committee of the AM
erican Contract Bridge League
and now a member of its exc
cutive committee.
We participated in a special
duplicate game in our honor,
and were once again greatly i'm
pressed with Pacific coast bridge.
Be prepared for quick doubles
in this section of the country.
You will notice the double on
today's hand is very close, and
fine defensive play was needed
to defeat the contract one trick.
South won the opening lead
with the ten of hearts. and re-
turned q diamond. The jack
forced the ace, and North led the
other heart. South won with
the queen and shifted to the
ace of clubs, followed by the
seven. North took his queen
Of clubs and then laid down the
king.
South now made a brilliant
play by trumpins the king of
clubs. He wanted an entry to
lead the ace of hearts. This lead
assured North of q trump trick,
which was needed to set the
contract.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS

DlCTURE Of King Carol is con-
l. spicuously absent from a new
set Of Ave Rumanian stamps COM
memorating the 50th anniversary
Of the existence Of the Carol Fund.
The Netherlands East Indies has
issued three more values Of the
locally printed Queen Wilhelmina
series. Three values-l71s cents
orange, l0-gulden green and Is
gulden orange-were announced.
Belgium has issued charity set
Of IL values. total face value so
francs. The surtax will aid SOL
diers' families. The series was
sponsored by Princess Merode,
cousin Of King Leopold.
A new dark-red stamp pictur-
ing a madonna by Won Dux, a
Dutch painter, has been issued by
Liechtenstein for regular postage.
The new Y. S. airmail stamp
issued June IS at the Philatelic
Agency and postohice in WASH
ington, d. c., sold 227.S7l copies
the frst day ($i3.672.26). A total
Of 99,S90 covers were cancelled
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
= BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

the defense effort. A 80 per
cent cut hos oIreody been lev
led oooinst the washing mo-
chine industry. Steel sheet
aprons and shields have been
eliminated. Plostics have been
substituted where possible, but
there's O shortoee of plostics.
All electric appliances shine
resplendently with chrome and
nickel that can be produced is
eormorked for defense. Steel
furniture is now using .ZOO,-
600 tons of steel q yeor, and
thot is needed for defense. And
so it goes. light down the list.
MORE AID FOR. INDUSTRY
The big Job. Of course, is to
shift the plants that have been
making these things and the
men working in those plants
over to defense industry or to
substitutes.
1t is to help in this reoIIoco-
ton that the OPM hos recoo.
nized its Defense Contrcet Ser
vice under Robert L. Mehornoy
OF Konsos City and William (.
Lewis OF Toledo. A genuine ef-
fort is to be mode t. help the
little fellow. the sub-controc-
tor and the Independent man.
ufocturer Who foce CLOSING
their shops because they cont
get materials to continue their
normal business or because
they haven't been able to act q
piece Of the defense fob.
Some Of the steps the new
DCS will toke to relieve the
admittedly bad situation in
clude non-openihe of normal
bids on Army and Navy con-
trocts for 5 days from dote of
coll, insteod of five days, in or
der to give more time for blue
prints and specifications to be
studied by the So branch Of
fices. Calls for bids for large
quantities will be broken down
to permit smaller concerns "a
bid for appropriate quantities.
Bidders on contracts gilmore
than $50, 900 value will be re-
Quired to stote minimum per.
centoee Of the job which they
will sub-controct.
Finally, no new machine
tools will be given contractors
os long as there ore idle MAJ
chine tools in plants obIe to
hondIe sub-controetine. within
q reasonable distance.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. % =
Casting problems always are a
source of worry to the studio.
No matter how satisfactorily
players may do in an individual
picture, fans have a hard time
accepting them because of pre-
vious roles played-like Zasu
Pitts doing a serious character
ization excellently, but drawing
laughs in the wrong places be-
cause people regard her as a
coincidence.
When Herbert Marshall wins
LARAMIE Day in Kathleen"
there'll doubtless be murmur-
lngs among the customers that
the last time they were together,
in Foreign Correspondent"
Miss Day was Mars | | s
daughter.
Lately the age discrepancy
situation has been reversed
several times, with young lead
ing men conducting romantic
conquests among veteran screen
queens. Fans were quick to
comment when boyish Glenn
Ford was paired with Margaret
SULLIVAN in $50 Ends the
Night"
MIRIAM REVOLTS
There have been many others.
Holden himself has been teamed
with Barbara Stanwyck; John
Wayne with Marlene Dietrich;
Stirling Hayden with Madeleine
Carroll. Most startling of such
castings didn't quite come off
but Universal actually schedul-
ed 36-year-old Miriam Hopkins
to play opposite 22-year-old
Robert Stack in BAD Lands of
Dakota" Miss Hopkins turned
it down when she found she'd
have to marry the youngster in
the last reel.
Of course studios also are
guilty of sins of omission in
which talented people aren't
allowed to do the things for
which they are famed. Char
lotte Wynters was one of the
ablest condolences w h m
Broadway ever sent to Holly
wood, but while producers have
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23

been screaming about the short
age of feminine comics, Miss
Wynters never has been given a
comedy role.
Then there's Martin Kosleck,
a fine young actor who was
known in Europe for the chill
drens plays he did with Albert
Basserman and for the stage
roles he did opposite Marlene
Dietrich in 1.-THE Tanning of the
Shrew" and Elisabeth Bergner
in "St. joan" But he played
Goebbels in Confessions of
Nazi Spy" and the head of the
Gestapo in Underground"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23

Kosleck doesn't have q lot of
money, but he so desperately
wants another type of casting
that he has offered to donate to
the USO his entire salary from
the first picture in which he
isn't shown as a Nazi.
KELLAWAY KICKS
Portly Cecil Kellaway finally
has convinced Hollywood of
his merits as a character actor,
but he had a hard time of it. He
had been on the Australian stage
l6 years, playing all the Char
les Winninger and Victor Moore
roles in reproduced American
shows.
Then he got a movie contract
here, but when he arrived in
1893 he was rushed into a desc
dose-an'-dem American gang
ster role. After year of the
tripe diet, he quit and went back
to Australia, but returned to
work in "Wuthering Heights"
The brass hats also hand
strange assignments to their d.
rectors occasionally, and a cur
rent exam ple is Swamp
Water" under Jean Renoir. 1t
was something of q shock to 60
on the set the other day and
find a backwoodsy American
picture in charge of a precise
Frenchmen who is best known
for his Grand Illusion"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
. SO THEY SAY

Although I spent only . short
time in the United States, was
impressed by the enormous
quantities of war material now
being produced.
Prince Bernard OF the Meth
erlands.
We have to explain our insti-
tutions to our people 50 that
there is q pride in American life
and thought.
REV. John Walter Houck.
Bronx, New York.
II will be q battle Of manpow-
er in the end.
General Wavell. new British
commander in India.
We can have the necessities OF
life and about defense, too. But
we cannot have the luxuries Of
life and about defense, too.
Robert Z. Mcconnell, chief OF
conservation section. OPM.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23

burden for free coses, 9ornishees ond
attachments and bordering eomPenso-
ton cases.
Broader means Of assuring hos
pitoIizotion to more people ore desir-
obIe socicI end. II opportunity is Of
tered for people to do it comparatively
for themselves, there will be less cry for
socioIizotion. 1t tokes something to
beot something.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
. BARBS

Fish stories are in full swing
and if all of them were true
most of our lakes would drop
10 feet.
In love letters xxx" marks
the spot where the man falls.
Nowadays, it's arms, not
hands, across the sea that count.
In swimming season the wat
er that wasn't deep" takes the
place of the "gun that wasn't
loaded"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
= FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
) YEARS AGO TODAY

S YEARS AGO TODAY
1886
Buckholz points to Monroe
game.
Meeting for county duck hum
tiers set for tonight.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
81 new members join the Old
Crowd.
Mills family has reunion at
Ray Union church.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1906
Detroit has purchased Bum
pus" Jones, Mount Clemens
twirler, for $4,000.
E. G.. Dailey's pickle sheds
burned to the ground yesterday.
There was no stock in the build
ings.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Oliver ChapatOn and son ana
daughter are enjoying a voyage
down the st. Lawrence river.
The Old Crowd elected Off
GERS yesterday as follows: T. j.
West, president; G. c. Lamb.
vice-president; A. E. VanEps,
secretary; F. r. Eastman, treas
urer, and w. j. Daley, chief of
brass drum.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Elder Harrington has gone to
Brother Moody's camp meeting
at Northfield, Mass, and Elder
Guthrie has gone to Indiana.
Mr.. Rosenberg, the urbane
proprietor of the Cenatrl Park,
has on display an exhibit OF
picked horned toads, tarantulas,
scorpions, ETC., momentoes OF
the three years he spent in Mex
leo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
BY VIM. f. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Mrs. McKepney, Waldemar
Won .Zedtwitz. and l said goodby
to Morgan Howard in Los An
geles and Travelled to San Diego,
where we were met by Mrs.
Albert Rockwell of Warren. Pa,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23

The world needs more eeeentrlcs'
Sonoetimes one is tempted to be9lr

sonoetimes one is tempted to begin
believing thot all mankind hos tlno''y
been run through the some mo'o az
lost. been hammered ond pounded oy
the necessities Of modern lire mo
nitifuI procession of monkins as ident'-
rol as q row of lead soldiers. Then along
comes ar eccentric, and we breotne
oooin Here is one different from
others: here is one Who though they
coll him odd, ronifests his own beng
and none other.
Probably you never heard OF Roger
Povne. Rioer is 81, with long lite be-
hind him and perhaps short one
oheod. But he has spent the lost -
wears roaming the country, tree os
bird (freer, for bird has to follow the
seosons) and preaching gospel OF
why Work."
Breothes there q man with soul SO
decd who never to himself has said,
WHY work." The thought hos come
once. twice, many times to every man:
But Poyne hos made lfe-work OF
questioning works necessity, Of asking
q question which life answers for most
men before ever they get q chance to
ask it.
With modern scientific and me-
chonicnI development, ovows Poyne,
no man ought to be coIIed upon to work
more thon one doy q week. With the
products Of such work, welI-or9onized
economy would supply oil necessities
and many comforts, he conceives.
Even with present shortcomings, this
modern Thoreou finds one dogs work
week enough to supply the needs OF
his simple life. Carrying 5O-Pound
pack, Payne just eases his way around
the country. sleeping in perks in nice
weather, on porches or church porti-'
Goes on roiny cold nights It's on onnio-
bic, oimIess life for one who is content
to live So
No use pulling the Payne prescrip-
ton oport. no use to suggest that had
others not worked there would be no
perks, no church Porches on which to
sleep; useless to note thot we're oil
others instantly to adopt the Payne
proctice. life might not be SO pleasant
and unworred even for Payne himself;
grotuitous to suggest thot the rest Of
Us are carrying the Poynes on our back
when we CORY olso many others who
osk ond get much more
The Poynes pay their way, in
sense. They enrich life Their very life
and presence is guarantee that man.
kind is not yet beyond hope; that the
dream Of Q Golden Age is not so DOR
mont but +hot some living men actually
persist in creating their own little
Golden Ages and living sereneIy in
them though the heavens foil
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-23
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
Nv the Associated Press
FAMILY

DEFENSE FAMILY
BREVARD, N. C.-The Mill
ers are an about defense
family.
J. A., the father, is helping
with defense housing on the
North Carolina coast. Mrs.
Miller plans to join him soor
as his secretary.
Fred, the eldest son. is sta
toned at Maxwell Field, Ala;
John is a lieutenant at the SUBJ
marine base at New London,
Conn; Henry Is an aviation
cadet at Lou Foote Field in
Stamford, Tex.