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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25
.KuSter Heads
Store Here

Although Jack Kuster has just
been named manager of the
Cunningham drug retail outlet
in Mount Clemens. he is no
stranger to city and county res
idents.
Kuster has lived at 1405
Wellesley in Seminole Hills for
the past two and one-half years.
is wife, the former Lora Rosso,
is the daughter of Police Chief
ans Mrs. Arthur l. Rosso.
A graduate of Ferris Institute,
Kuster joined the Cunningham
organization 10 years ago. After
managing four of the concerns
stores in Detroit, he opened the
new East Detroit outlet nine
months ago.
The busters are the parents of
a son, William, Is r. onths old.
The figure of the Christ of
the Andes" is 26 feet high and
rests on column of granite %
feet high,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25
Mayors Son Now
Navy Petty Officer
Don Westendorf, Jr.,
Wins Promotion

Donald r. Westendorf, Jr.,
son of Mayor and Mrs. Donald
R. Westendorf, SIS Union, has
been promoted from seaman,
first class, to petty officer, third
class, in the U. S. Navy, it be-
came known today.
Petty Officer ' e stendorf
joined the Navy year ago last
July 3 following his graduation
from Mount Clemens High
school. where he was a star full
back. He is now on duty at an
Alaskan port.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25

BAD AXE -(P- A citizens
committee M N lay proposed
postponement until after the war
of plans for a memorial to AL
bert E. Sleeper, World War gov
ernor, and Huron county vet
Grams. The committee said the
community would ultimately
match $500 which the Michigan
Historical Commission has set
aside for the memorial.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25
Life Insurance Premiums
Considered as Exemption
Treasury Proposal for Credits Up
to $3.50 Considered by Committee

have the effect of increasing
taxes for most individuals =
abandonment of the present 10
per cent credit for earned in
come.
Members said treasury Of
ficials estimated elimination of
this credit would add $780,
100000 to annual revenues, but
they were not pressing for it.
The committee wrote one ten
tative relief provision into the
bill yesterday, voting to permit
taxpayers to charge off extraor-
binary medical expenses that ex-
ceeded S per cent of their total
income. A maximum deduction
of $4,000 would be permitted
and some members said this
might subtract SITS, 100000
from potential revenues.
CREDITS LOWERED
Offsetting this, the committH
voted to lower from $400 to 5000
the individual income tax Credit
for dependents, a move calcu-
lated to add $500, 100000 to rev.
enues. 1t declined, however, to
extend the present l6-year age
limit on depenents tq cover chill
rem up to 81 attending school CT
college.
In approaching House pro-
visions lowering pfesent per-
sonal income tax exemptions
from $3.50 to $500 for single
persons and from $1,000 to ST.
200 for married COUPLES, the
Senate group also REVISED a
section giving special treatment
to men in the armed forceS\
The House had voted for ex-
emptions of $3.50 for all single
persons and $500 for all mar
ried persons in uniform. but the
Senate committee decided to
limit this to enlisted men below
the rank of commissioned Of
ficers.
The group also voted, 8 to 7,
to tax the income from future
issues of state and municipal
bonds, but George said this
would add little immediate
revenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25
Income Tax Credit for Old Debt Payments Possible


AT A UNITED STATES
ARMY CAMP IN THE EGYP-
TIAN DESERT, Aug rs - R
- Sand flies, desert sores, the
high price of beer - these are
only routine complaints of the
United States troops here.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25

What has them burned ~
more than the desert sun 70 tho
cigarette situation.
Their reason: They have -
pay 20 cents a pack for eiGar.
cites marked Compliments g
Smokes for YankS.'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-25
RoseviIIe Wife
CHARGES Desertion

Mrs. Margaret Wheeler, of
Roseville, charged desertion in
a suit she filed in circuit court
yesterday asking a divorce from
her husband, Edgar.
She asks custody of IA
moith-old child and alimony
The couple married May "a,
1889 and separated Dec. 10,
1941.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
BY PETER EDISON

II is only when you get an in
sight into some of the plots and
conspiracies again;t the United
States-discovered through CEN
sorship of mail to and from re-
mote points under the American
flag-that full necessity for dras-
tic wartime inspection of COM
munications can be appreciated
Details of these counter-es-
pionage cases cannot be disclos-
ed now, for to do so would give
away the methods of censorship
and destroy their effectiveness
And even after the war many
cases will never be revealed, for
to do so might be considered a
violation of the privacy of the
mails.
But in general :; can be told
now that millions of dollars have
already been saved the United
States government through
clews detected by censors. Huge
stockpiles of boarded raw ma
terials, strategic minerals need
eG for war production, have been
detected. One OF these seizures
alone was of greater monetary
value than the entire cost of OPP
Grating the Office of Censorship
for a year.
In spite of this there is a de-
finite effort now being made to
limit censorship. Specifically,
some people in Alaska and Puer-
to Rico believe that communica-
tons with those territories
should not be censored. Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska is
particularly bitter against this
censorship and it is largely as
a result of his protests that the
Senate Judiciary Committee is
investigating this whole sub
ject.
For the past year-ever since
the Office of Censorship was set
up-all mail, cables, radio and
overseas telephone communica-
tons to and from the u. S. ter
ritories and possessions have
been subject to censorship. This
censorship has been exercised
under authority granted to the
Office of Censorship by an exc
cutive order. The President, in
turn, received his authority to
issue this order from the First
War Powers act passed by Con-
gress in 1941, which delegates
certain extra wartime powers to
the chief executive as command
er in chief of the Army and
Navy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11

With the West hand, More
head opened the ace of spades,
concealing the king, to get a
look at dummy. That was a min
or false card.
When East followed with the
spade two, Morehead led the diap
mond nine, brilliant concep.
ton. Dummy played the queen,
East the king, and thus West was
sure of trick with the tenspot.
Morehead counted his side
could win only one spade and
two clubs unless East held a
diamond honor as good as the
king. But his king could be only
once-Cuarded and would fall
when declarer played the suit
in the only feasible way.
BY leading the diamond nine.
Morehead gave South the idea
that East held K 10 X in dia-
monds, in which case covering
with the queen was essential to
prepare for later Sinesse
against East's ten-spot.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11

More expressive than a long,
low whistle, or the Wolf-cry of
Woo-Woo over a gorgeous bit of
femininity was the remark by a
visiting soldier on the set of
Hello, Frisco, Hello" at Goth
Century + X. introduced to
Lynn Bari, he cape OPEN
mouthed at her very decollete
gown and couldn't muster the
words to acknowledge the intro
duction. Finally, and feelingly,
he managed to blurt out: Now
| know w h we're fighting
for
One of the top songs of World
War l - tn e unforgettable
"Charmaine.' is about to reach
the screen again, this time as a
film title. The composer of the
song, Lou Pollack, and Repub-
lie studio are comforting on the
idea.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11

The A. F. Of l. and the c. J. O have agreed on q
Joint committee to hear and settle ursdctonol diff
ferences or if it foiIs to send them to arbitrator
named by the President This could promote the war
effort greatly
When President Murroy Of the c. !. 0. wos asked
what effect the new agreement would have on the
current ursdotonoI dispute in the Kaiser shiPyords
he declined to comment Does that mean mental res
eNotions before the committee has been estob-
shed?
The proof Of the agreement will be in the sincerity
with which it is oorried out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
DANUBE TURNS BROWN

Tunesmith Hal Borne's latest
is The Brown Danube Waltz in
Boogie.' And what's more, Fred
Astaire likes it so we'll he'll
probably buy the tune for his
next filmusical.
For years showmen have be-
lieved that a starless picture. 60
ing out cold" was doomed to
failure. But Alexander Korda' s
current hit. "One of Our Air
craft Is Missing" is proving diff
ferently. There's not single
well-known star in the cast.
There's nothing to put on thea
ter marques to attract atten-
ton, The film came from Eng
land and was released quickly
without ever getting the benefit
Of an extended buildup.
But the excellent story, we'll
played by a capable cast, soon
caught on with audiences. The
picture pro- yes that good
story, we'll told, cannot fail at
the box office.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
a BUBBLE PUNCTURED

President Wom Allan Peterson Of United Air
Lines, who not be suspected Of betIing the pos
sibties Of the oirplone, stuck the pin of common
sense into eossoner bubble the other day.
To haul 1850 tons Of freight from, Chicogo to San
Francisco, and the some quantity bock would cost
$4,000 by train but S. 10000 by Plane soys Pot
terson A ship can toke 900 tons round trip be-
tween San Francisco and Brisbane for $4,000;
plones would cost $40 100000
Obviously plane cost will come down. But not thot
mach The tron and the ship ore going to remain in
v6G1oble for decides to come.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
. SO THEY SAY

The Germans came over regu-
larly every fifteen minutes. Ten
bombs fell from the belly Of each
plane and momen. later the
ground rocked and the roar Of
explosions came over the hill
top.-United Press Correspond
ent Ned Russell a Tebourba in
North Africa.
You will ave TO make even
further sacrifices in order for us
TO achieve our goal. Then, after
We have driven &C Germans and
Italians out Of North Africa we
will strike them somewhere else
- Lieut.. Gen. 'isenhower to
people of North Africa.
We are better sh It's (than the
Japs). our weapons give us more
firepower. and ou- reactions are
quickcr.-Lieut. Bernard Howes
after New Guinea fighting.
know Of noth'rg which justi-
flies the hope that the war will
not be long { ,-at bitter, bloody
years do not lie ahead. II may be
that the war in Europe will
come to an end bcfore the war
in Asia.-Winston Churchill.
You must not forget that war
is a matter of change and hazard
and that what is true today may
not be true tomorrow-WPB
Executive Ferdinand Eberstadt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
. IN HOLLYWOOD

ing made of the excellent civil
ian defense job of air raid war
dens. But government officials
have given the 60 ahead.
Here's an amusing behind-thc-
scenes story. Several weeks ago
RKO studio announced a film
titled, Queens of BurleSque. :"
Several days later Producers
Releasing Corporation protested
to RKO, claiming priority on
the title. This week Republic
studio abruptly ended the argu-
ment by announcing that the
title has been owned by Repub-
lie for the last five years.
JESSEL JOKE
Hearing that a certain Holly
wood bigWig had been made a
colonel. George Jessel cracked:
If he can be colonel, | want
To be 2 fOrti'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
SORRY CONNIE

WILMINGTON, CALF. -
Age-old tradition holds that only
feminine sponsors may christen
new ships. a
AS reward for collecting ~
500 pounds of scrap metal in a
New Mexico school contest,
Connie Davis, 13. of Carlsbad
was selected to christen
freighter Saturday.
Shipbuilding officials had
girls $50 wrist watch engraved:
Connie Davis, sponsor of the
S. S. Archbishop Lamy."
Then they learned that Connie
is boy.
So a girl, Yola 10 Yokum,
runner-up, was given the chris
tening honors, and Connie will
give the command to start the
ship down the ways.
Disposal of the wrist watch is
an unsolved problem.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM +. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

Very little has been written
about deception plays. About
the best-known play made to
deceive is the false card, and it
is used too much by inexperi-
enced players. A false card, like
bluff in poker, is most effec-
tive when it comes after a long
period of honesty. AS Charles
H. Goren says in his Lew book,
1T is very Improbable to get
yourself spotted as a notorious
false carder."
But well-plann"' false card
may completely confuse an OPP
ponent. The example shown was
executed by Albert II. Morehead.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON

Exclusively yours: Dorothy
Lamour has new rival in the
South Sea Scanty department
since Hedy Lamarrs hit in
White Cargo MGM is conSid-
ering "Congai" as Hcdy's next
flicker The yarn, of course, has
her cavorting around again in
that brief lurong Holly
wood set some kind Of a record
during 1912 by producing 280
reels of Army training films.
But listen to this-during 1913
Hollywood will produce from
1900 to 1000 similar reels for
the government Reason
for the delay on the new Laurel
and Hardy comedy, Air Raid
WardenS," is that the studio
thought the script so funny that
it would look as if fun was be-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
GOOD START, BELATED

President Roosevelt's executive order coordinate
ina the mitory droft with n'onpower control, all
under the Jurisdiction of Paul McNutt, is sound and
constructive.
Mr.. McNutt hos been given the authority neces-
sory to decide which men shall 90 into the Army,
which into the Navy, and which shall remain in in
dustry EnIistments which could throw the entire Sc
ective machinery out Of whock banned within
the prime oge group. Men over 80, who generally
have posed the oee for good soldering the ranks
are excluded from the rory droft unless they have
particular skIIs which are badly needed in the armed
services.
The Army, the Navy, Agriculture Labor, Hous-
Ing, War Production, shipping and land tronsPorto-
ton all are to be represented on the War Monpower
Commission, so that the problems Of each will not be
overlooked.
No civilian but the secretaries Of War and the
Navy shall determine how many each service is
to act each month"; 1t will be up to Chairman McNutt,
however, to produce those men without breaking up
the vital industrial machinery Of the orsenol-eronory
of democracy
The key to the situation and the test Of its
strength, however, lies in paragraph 5.
This authorizes Chairman Mckutt to pry loose
workers whose services ore more urgently needed
elsewhere, and to insist that, being made available
for essential work. those men and women shall be
hired through the U. S. Employment Service
1t goes without saying that in placing workers the
USES is to see that every wor-winnine job is ode
quotey filled.
Mr. McNutt can 90 to the Pouter Doll Mfg Co.,
Inc, and say to Mr. Pouter, president:
'You have seven skilled mochinsts. The Smash
EN- Tank Corp. needs 5 good nochinsts. Please let
Messrs A, B, c, D, E. F, and 90 by Saturday week..
To Messrs A. to 9, inclusive, Mr.. McNutt can
soy: when you through at Pouters you can get
new work only through the USES"
To the USES Mr.. McNutt can say: when those
seven Pouter mechanics come in for work, and the
eight from the Roller Skate Factory Ino., send them
all to the Snoshem Tank Corp"
IF this is how the setup is supposed to work, and
If Mr. McNutt is permitted and encouraged to make
it function So this monpower order could be the sou-
ton for most pressing war problem.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BUT is 1T LEGAL?


You run now into a very fine
legal argument. No one questions
the right of the Office of Cen
sorship to supervise communica-
tons between the United States
and Canada or Mexico. They are
foreign countries. yet they actu-
ally touch the United States ov-
er thousands of miles of border.
On the other hand, Alaska.
Puerto Rico, Hawaii md the Vir-
gin Islands are u. S. territories
and under the constitutional Bill
of Rights, citizens of those ter
ritories are guaranteed the same
Liberties enjoyed by people liv-
ing in the continental United
States. There is no censorship of
communications between New
York and California, and there
fore it might be argued that to
censor mail going to o coming
from any U. S. citizen in the out
lying territory might be consid-
cred placing these territorial
residents in the same class as
foreigners.
Office of Censorship has been
operating on the theory that its
powers under presidential order
were ample to censor all COM
munications to American flag
territories, poss sssions and mill
tary bases in Bermuda, Ulster,
Newfoundland, New Zealand or
wherever. But 70 make this au-
thority beyond question bill
was introduced in Congress to
amend the First War Powers Act
and make specific provision for
censoring of communications be-
tween continental u. S. and ter
ritories. The bill passed the
House, went to the Senate. was
slightly amended and passed by
the Senate, then returned to the
House for approval of the SEN
ate amendments.
At this point the Senate. stir
red up by Governor Gruening's
charges that the Office of Cen
sorship had been illegally CEN
soring mail between the United
States and Alaska, asked that
the bill be returned to the Senate
and reconsidered.
LOOKS SENSIBLE
AS the matter stands it is an
involved legal question on whe-
Their an executive order stem
ming from the First War Powers
act has any standing. but in de-
termining that point, this issue is
to be the excuse TO- Senate
Judiciary Committee investiga-
tion Of all U. S. censorship prac-
tises.
From a practical military
point of view, it might be diff
cult to understand how there
could be any question on the adj
visibility of censoring mail to
and from the territories.
Residents of Alaska, Puerto
Rico and Hawaii say they're all
just as good Americans as are
the people of Massachusetts or
Virginia. Skeptical mainlanders
recalling the Spanish popula-
ton of Puerto Rico and the ia
panese population of Hawaii,
might beg to differ.
Or suppose mail-carrying
ship is torpedoed, sci. I'd, the
mails captured.
If it is necessary to censor
mail to Canada and Mexico, why
isn't it just as necessary to CEN
sor communications with the
outlying territories and posses
sions?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Assoeia Press
OLD, BUT TT STILL WORKS

CAIRO, ILL.-It cost j. B.
Sitter Of Risco, Mo-, $4,000 to
learn that the mechanical CAD
get two strangers showed him
wouldn't make money.
After demonstrating the ma
chine, the men left him in a no.
tel room with the device in
which he had placed the $4,000.
He lost the dough and the
police wouldn't even let him
keep the machine.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
TAXPAYERS

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -
Three old cannon were left on
the statehouse grounds because
the state didn't have proper IL
tie or authority to turn them in
for scrap.
Two St. Louis men tried to
haul the guns away last night.
Their truck was too small, how
ever, so they called wrecker.
The wrecker called the police
and the police ended the mid
night scrap drive.
Explained one of the men:
The state didn't have title. so
they were exercising a tax
payers right to the relics.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.-Fire-
men exploring the ruins of
burned building, from which
they thought everyone had been
evacuated, were startled when
they discovered a human skele-
ton.
Then they realized they were
in the secret meeting room of a
lodge. The skeleton had seen
service in many an initiation
ritual.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
UNANIMOUS

KLAMATH FALLS, ORE
Margaret Heath, cook at the
Fremont school cafeteria, slip
ped on the sidewalk enroute to
work and suffered a broken
arm. At the hospital she met
Warren Harris, Fremont school
janitor, who slipped on the side
walk enroute to work and suf-
fered a broken arm.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
TOUGH MARINES

SAN DIEGO-Barbers, COM
planning about the growing
toughness of whiskers in this
city, home of the big marine
corps training base, upped the
price of q shave from 35 to so
cents.
1T takes about as long to give
a man a shave as il does to cut
a head of hair" explained a bar
Der.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-11
BURNED

LOS ANGELES - The fire
laddies may be short on reading
matter this month.
Fire destroyed the print shop
where the monthly fire depart
ment magazine is printed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-08
BURLESQUE ENDS
 25TH WEEK HERE
Show for 26th Week Most Enjoyable, Starring Local
 Man, Jim Cavanaugh

A program which has everything from good looking peelers, versatile cnmedianS a beef trust Of chorlnes and I don't mean maybe, IS the current all week production at Wa terhury's only burlesque house, Jac- uues theater. Tn addition water buryR own, Jimmy Cavanaugh, IS hacle for the third time in 26 weeks, AZ the featured warbler and straightman, and for the same num- her of times clicks in admirable fashion.
 The strippers, Frances White, blonde. Nadine Marsh, brunette, and Marion Morgan, red head, are real- ly easy to look at, The first named adds to her laurelS with a bit or straight work now and then, much more pleasing than that offered by most teasers \ Tiny Fuller, appropriately nick named, is natural, easy-going comedian, who gains many local admirers by his nonchalant but winning style, despite the fact he is nott he marquee highlight as far as the comedians are concerned. Billy watson, Dutch comic now Ill his 7sth year, Grogan Spencer, Yrish veteran, are the featured comics by virtue of their nation aily-renowned Kraussmeyer's Alley sketch.
 Bobby Morris, diminutive danc- ing comedian, is back in new gketches and repeats as a pleaser. The Alley sketch, featuring four Murphy Girls with Watson and Crogan, is a bit different than ordi- nary presentations in that the girls, three of whom are sisters and the fourth a cousin, are really hetty beef trusters who, despite their weight, dance and frolic with more rhvthm than most ordinary white chOrines.
 Harry Jackson does all right by himself as e straight man, but his sorrell-topped wife, Dorothy Sevier, in similar role, is much more ef- feetive, in fact she's probably the best straight woman who's appear ed here this season. With person. ality galore she can rattle of lines most admirably and her poise proves experience is a great asset to a trouper.
 Eleanor Kaye, brunette dancer with a debutante's smile, does sev- eral intricate ballet numbers which draws rounds of applause.
 Next week Manager Jack Beck will offer as the feature attraction that highly publicized double-talk comedian of Eddie Cantor, Harry Savoy, showing here for the first time.