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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

ly notes his grown, according
to the last census, to pOpula-
ton of more than 200. Arthur
and a brother were always put
ting on little shows.
So Arthur started by driving
stakes for q tent show. He did
that one season for board and
keep. The next season he got 81
a week for driving stakes and
playing bit roles. When the
third season came around, Ar
thur switched to medicine
show. Besides helping put up
the tent, he did the cooking, but
such drudgery was lightened by
a chance to play leads and
blackface comedy and heavies.
Between summer seasons,
Hunnicut went to school, where
he says he was a bad student
who became a poor teacher. He
fell in love with a girl, also a
teacher, and in 1884 they agreed
that when Arthur was making
as much as $3.50 a month they'd
get married.
During his tent and medicine
show travels, Hunnicut saw a
few plays by slick actors in real
theaters, 50 he decided to &C.
quire a similar polish. He went
to a dramatic school in Cleve-
land, and then to a summer stock
theater on Martha's Vineyard.
They was always teachin' me
phonetics an proper speech, an
l was exposed to considerable
more while hangin' around Bos-
ton awhile.
"Well, pretty soon I got to
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
HiehIights from
the Latest Books
BY JAMES E. HILBERT

In Dragon Seed (JOhn Day:
$3.50, Pearl Buck writes again
of China and the indestructible
integrity of its little people, its
good earth. Now she tells the
story Of that earth controlled by
the invader; stubbornly, spirit
ually retained by those who
work it.
Ling Tan and his family lived
on a prosperous farm near Nan
king. Unable to resist enemy
force Ling Tan and all those like
him, loving peace, met the in
vaders with offers of friendly
cooperation; offers which were
met with cruelty and pillaging
and bestiality.
All seemed lost until the news
came through by whispered
words and forbidden radios, that
the fight had not ended beyond
the hills, End that people in
other countries were resisting in
vasion and destruction of their
land. Not only for themselves
but for these others, Ling Tan
and his friends determine to
hold their own and resist domin-
alton, hoping by their logged
courage to engage the enemy in
bitter rear-guard. action until
the land is once more in its
rightful owners hands.
Ling Tan, his sons and friends,
conduct merciless guerilla war
fare, and in one of best Sec
tions of the book, he sadly re-
fleets that he and his kill with
no feeling. "Is not this the end
Of our people when we become
like other warlike people in the
world? And yet in these days
we must remember that peace Is
good. The young cannot re-
member and II Is we who must
remember and teach them again
and again that peace is mans
great food"
Power and strength have gone
into this book. Though not ~
fine as The Good Earth" Ora
CON Seed" II in that great ira
dition and shows the author at
her writing best Mrs. Buck
knows China with her mind and
heart, she understands its past.
and sees its future. 1t Is not
likely that Americans will ever
have their Chinese allies made
clear to them by . most compel
ent interpreter.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
70 sssssvsseeosss0
Aroentino's Roco Wos
Able Soldier, President

Able Soldier, President
THE rule that military men dc
4 not make good presidents finds
IN exception In Argentina's Julio
A. Roca. Only Argentine presi.
dent 70 hold the ONCE for two full
terms, Roca was until his hrst as
sumption Of the executive power
pre-eminently Q military figure.
The stamp above. issued in le4l,
bears q picture Of . monument
erected to Roca, who began his
career as Q soldier at the age Of
10. At ~ he was already . veteran
Of several revolutions when the
war with Paraguay broke out in
1855.
In that bloody. hve-year strug-
gle Roca gathered honors and
emerged Q colonel. His fame in.
creased when he crushed the up
rising Of General Mitre In 1874.
Four years later he was named
minister Of war. at the age Of IS,
and carried out q brilliant CAM
paign against the Indians.
Roca became the hero Of the
day and he was elected 70 The
presidency two pears later. H
carried his able executive Doweso
into once and HE sdninis(sotloo
flooo- 81 was o0e e notaooo No.
rQel IT. ~ 1alipA
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
THE DOCTOR AND CIVIL DEFENSE

The splendid contribution mode by
the medical profession to notionol de-
tense is we'll known. Now the doctors
are being called upon to do vitoIly inn
portont work on behalf Of civilian
defense.
The Medical Division Of h e OCD
recently issued bulletins requesting
that number of steps be token to
sofeouord the civilian population in
the event Of an emergency. First. state
and local authorities ore instructed to
appoint stote and local chiefs Of en-
Urgency medical service in consu|to-
tion With stote medical societies.
Second, stote defense councils
should instruct local chiefs Of the en-
Urgency medical service to complete
spot maps showing Location Of all hos
pitoIs, the number Of emergency medi-
col squads available, and sites for
casualty stations.
Third, inventories shou d be
made Of bed capacity Of all hos
pitoIs, and the amount of expansion
possible during on emergency, deter
mined.
Fourth. arrangements for transporter
ton should be made.
Fifth. stoffs Of hosptols and trans
portotion agencies should hold week.
" drills to perfect themselves for &C.
tion when needed.
AS the Journal of the American
Medical Association points out, THE
medical profession may be relied on to
accept the responsibility in this work,
as in q other aspects Of medicine.
The American system Of private medi-
cine hos always been equal to any en-
Urgency Of the past - and it will be
equal to ony Of the future.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card AUTHORITY

The recent pamphlet, Step
ping Stones to Sterling Bridge"
by L. D. Boone, is an excellent
manual for both beginner and
intermediate player. Admittedly
based on the Culbertson System,
il is concise, clearly-written, and
covers a surprisingly wide range
of bidding situations. ! have in
mind many other pamphlets that
have been published, which
cover the opening bid and first
response and then quit!
What Boone has added to the
standard outline of the gilbert
son System is a sidelight on the
why's and wherefores of bidding
prictises. For example, my ad-
vice to the average player is to
avoid using opening three-bids
at all, unless he is playing with
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
MERCHANTS IN THE EMERGENCY

Current plans call for doubling the
proportion Of the national income spent
for wor purposes, inside the year. Some
believe that an even higher rote Of arms
spending may be achieved.
The effect Of thot on the civilian
population is clear. Many once-com-
mon articles will Disappear from the
morket-motor cors and tires ore q
case in point Other articles will become
for more scarce, such as electrical To-
Dor saving devices. In many instances,
prices will substantially and unovoid-
obly increase.
Thot present real problem to the
consumers Of America, who are without
priorities and must toke what is left
over offer arms needs ore met. Those
consumers have one very important
ally. Thot ally is the retail merchant.
Merchandising was among the first
industries to realize the gravity Of the
problems that now confront the people,
and to toke steps to meet them. Led by
Tie choins. tens Of thousands Of stores,
selling goods Of every kind. immediate
Nput into effect an aggressive onti-in-
fiction pro9rom. BY cutting overhead
COSTS. BY fighting scare buying, and by
crossing carefully and wisely at the
snost favorable times, they managed to
4 49, rstoil price increases we'll under
clseole price increases.
49, No. nerchonts ore deoinq
H. tcify problem, as we'll as the
gn. Ilssfsoes showing con-
1c Nv ~ use suitobIe sub
1pod Nt,leh ore no longer
80 ~ ~ food field. they
~ pluobis infomotion
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. "a dis
repttable-looking old Teller with
receding gray hair and a wispy
mustache sat on the set of Wild
cat" and watched intently as the
other actors were put through a
series of scenes in front of a
Pickering process screen. Pres
emily he observed in an Ozark
drawl, Looks to me like these
movies amt near so much an
art as they are science.
I'm logged if know how
they can take all this stuff and
put it together and have it make
sense and look like somethin' /,
too. 1t sure amt much like the
Broadway stage"
Offhand, you'd say Arthur
Hunnicut amt much like the
Broadway stage, either, but
that's where he came from to
take up an acting contract with
the producing team OF the Will
liams, Pine and Thomas.
PLAYED PAPA
In New York he worked in a
couple of William Saroyan's
plays and also a musical comedy
which wasn't much account.
When Loves Old Sweet Song"
came along, Hunnicut, only 30,
was called for the role of the
65-year-old Oakie with Is child
rem because the producers want
ed the man who had played Kit
Carson in THE Time of Your
Life"
He started in Gravelly, Ark,
an Ozark town which he proud
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
ACCOMMODATING

ARKANSAS CITY, Kas.-
Missouri Pacific timetables call
for no stops at the Vinton
schoolhouse, in eastern Cowley
county.
But last week, engineer A.
c. Clough of Coffeyville brought
his train to 4 grinding halt and
hurriedly backed up to the
little school, whistle screaming.
Teachers and pupils, aroused
by the frantic footing. filed out
to find the schoolhouse roof
ablaze. The trainmen put out
the flames. The loss was less
than $50.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
NJ REIHR loSoA 80
Deity Meaihes WsshiWsten
Covsosoondonf

SvovOOWu
WASHINGTON, Feb. g.
Before anyone hod a chonce
to soy, my! Moybe this man
Donald Nelson would be q
good candidate for President
in l944!" Nelson himself hos
spiked such possibilities.
Whether he did il consciously,
the foct remoins that in his
initioI 1912 appearance be-
fore Senator Trumon's Com
mittee Investigating National
Defense. Nelson. os heed Of
the new Wor Production Board,
declared fIotIy. I'm not in
terested in politics. It's q busi-
ness you must learn from child
hood"
A few moments Ioter, Sen
otor Ralph O. Brewster Of Dex-
ter, Maine, tried to summarize
what Nelson's own ottitude to
his job might be in assuming
full responsibility for produc-
ton during the war period. I'm
other words" sold Brewster.
you're reody to be the eoot. "
I'm reody to be the ooot. I"
Nelson respected otter him and
then odded that on this Job, II
hove everything to lose and
nothing to eoin."
And thus Woshineton's new
est political ghost died o-born-
ing, just as O few people in the
copitoI we're beginning to COM
ment on how strange it would
be il President Roosevelt, in
making Nelson head of war
production, bod erected q fu-
ture political opponent.
A N0N-DUCkER
This forthriehtness Of Mel
sons in focino issues squoreIy
and doing something about
them before they ore surround
ed with gossip is one Of the
mans most admirable char
octeristics. He doesn't duck
questions. He looks the person
he's talking to squorely in the
eyes and he gives stroiehtfor-
word. honest. non-evosive an
swers. When he doesn't know
the answer, he soys so fronkly
or admits he hosn't had time
to think it through.
These attributes Of simple
honesty have won for Nelson
the confidence which everyone
in the government seems to
have for him now. There ore
plenty OF Washington politicos
who question whether Nelson
has any more authority or pow
er than knudsen had under the
old OPM. After all, it's the
Army and Navy who ore ootu-
oily going to let the contracts
jost os they've always done.
But Nelson. through, his obility
TO win confidence, ond with
thot confidence win co-opero-
ton, may have whot it tokes to
put over this war production
effort.
Nelson's obility to meet an
issue more than half woy-his
obiIity to walk right up to O
controversial ques Ii on and
wrestIe with it before it hos q
chance to .neok up behind his
desk ond throw him - was
clearly demonstrated in his
first appearance before the
Truman Committee. This CON-
mittee wos oil set to roise hob
about the 300 dolIor-o-yeor
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

SEATTLLThe classified ad
columns Of . Seattle Newspaper
today carried these:
Will trade dresser, bed,
wicker settee for 600 x 10
tires.
VIII exchange furniture for
labor. disgine bombproof shell
/. van axehanee lady's fur
cqat seetylene ,selding outfit.
WIN oeeqUe hegs~
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
FoRWARD-lN THE AMERICAN
WAY

Those who ore disappointed in the
achievements of Pon-Anericor con-
ference are usually those who. ticking
no account of obstacles, expect great
things all at once.
The meeting just closed at Rio de
Joneiro marks another and very de-
finite step forward in the inteero-
ton Of the Western Hemisphere. The
accomplishments we're not, perhaps.
quite as greet as many had hoped, nor
even as great as at one moment in the
conference seemed likely. but they ore
substantial. They have corried forward
another step the work that has been
going on for SO years, and have cor
RED it forward on solid basis. IMAM
unity, the Keystone Of Pon-Americon
agreements, has been preserved. To
have built the structure q little big her
on solid stone masonry is better than
to have shot it up five stories With
riokety scoffolding.
The Il American republics unoni-
mousIy oereed thot q common danger
faces all the Americas. They recon-
mended thot each country in its own
way and time break diplomatic reIo-
tions with the axis powers. Ninteen
of the countries have done this, even
before the conference closed; others
may follow The hundred-yeor border
controversy between Peru and Ecuo-
dor, which has so often resulted in
bIoodshed, appears to have been set
tied Consultation before any of the
countries resume relations with the
axis is promised.
In short, the American republics
foce the world today united as never
before.
These are no negligible achieve
nents. 1t is true that Argentina and
Chile have not yet seen fit to break
With the oxis That does not mean
that Hitler and Hirohito control them.
They stand where the United Stotes
stood two years ago, feeling secure in
isoIoton, wary of "forein entongIe-
ments," still hoping it won't happen
1t will take time and events to show
them the light, just as it took time and
events to show it to Britain and then
to the United States. In the meantime,
we are assured many forms Of co-opero-
ton from both countries denied to the
oxs
These things didn't ust happen.
They result from steodfost work and
foith in the foce Of sceptcism-work
by devoted men who have never lost
sight of hemisphere solidarity since
Bolivar first dreamed of it ll6 years
ogo.
On these foundations we must
build yet higher and even more secure
ly. Nothing in human relations is ever
finished Sumner WeIIes has good REQ
son for saying thot this has been the
most living thing yet to come out Of
the hemisphere"
+ We Of the Americas are BUILDING
q structure not only for the present,
but for the future; not only for our
selves, but for humonity
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
OPPOSES BIG PROFITS

On the question Of whot TO
do about excess profits Of war
contractors. Nelson hos equoi-
" frank theories, and he meets
congressional committee quer-
les on this point with simple
statements that while no mon-
ufocturer is entitled to uncon-
scionoble profits. every manu.
focturer ond every workman
is entitled to foir profits.
Where there is undue profit
land there will be some in q.
lot Of this war production on
which there is no experience to
bose costs-then the contract
will simply be reneeotioted to
reduce the profits.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
: BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON

-HasH ard Tire 400 "wocy-
the without compensation"
consuItonts in the war produc-
tion organization. The COM
mittee Investigators nod been
digging on the post records Of
these big shots temporarily
working for the government,
ond letters had gone out osk-
ing for doto on the war con-
trocts now held by the corpor-
otions these doIIor-o-yeor and
voc men held stock in or we're
employed by.
Furthermore, the Trumon
Committees report of Jon. IS
hod some bIisterine comments
on this subject, expressing op-
position to "a policy Of ticking
free services from persons with
oxes to grind"
Knowing these things, one
Of Nelson's first moves wos to
osk Senator Truman for per-
mission to testify on his policy
in hiring doIIor-o-yeor men and
woes. The committee complied
ond Nelson walked right up to
the dragon and slew it. The re-
suit is there won't be any ex-
pose Of potential misdeeds
these big businessmen might
be committing behind Uncle
SONS back. Not for some
months, anyway. While the
committee differed with Mel
son on his policy, it wos all
done in the best of spirit and
ir the end the committee told
the war production boss to 90
oheod and do the Job the way
he thought it should be done.
They'd back him up.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

VIM. Burleigh, the champion
pool player of the world, is at
Wade's Hotel.
Martin Croker has been ap-
pointed one of the visiting COM
mittee to look through the De-
troit Jesuit College.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

Isaac N. Grower and wife, of
Hope, Kansas, are visiting old
haunts and friends in Mount
Clemens.
County Treasurer Lefever Is
settling with the township
treasurers. He took in $4,000
Tuesday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
oFROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
1941
A total of IA youths were
rounded up by UNDERNEATH
Harley Ensign in connection
with a burglary ring.
All Macomb county students
were to be vaccinated against
diphtheria and small pox.
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
A total of $4,000 in Macomb
county banks is being held for
depositors with a warning II the
money Is not called for It may
be turned over to the state.
Macomb county branches OF
the Red Cross contributed a to-
tai of $7,128 for the Flood Re-
lief Fund.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Chennou|t, Chief Of A. V. c.,
Recalled, Promoted by Army

service was not Immediately dis
closed at the War Department.
Those nominated to be major gen.
erals included Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, director of selective serv-
ice. He is 4S and his home is An
COLA. IND.
Others promoted included Brig
Gen. Mark w Clark of Indianapo-
lis. 45-year-old chief of staff of the
Army Ground Forces. and three
brigadier generals who recently were
put in command of newly organized
infantry divisions.
The division commanders were
Brig. Gems. Emil r. Reinhardt of
Detroit, commander of the 9th In
fantry Division; Ira T. Wyche, a ma
tive of Ocracoke, N. c., 18th In
fantry Division, and Gustav H
FRANKIE, a native of Manning, Iowa,
commander of the 8lst Infantry Di-
vision.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Sub Sinks j. ). Shin
After Periscope
Is Shot Off
SO Survivors of Attack
In Atlantic Reach N. T.;
Seven Feared Lost
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 16-A ma
chine-gun crew aboard a United
States merchantmen shot off one
of the periScopes of an attacking
submarine, which nevertheless
sank their ship off the Atlantic
coast, three of the ships 38 sur
viyors related today.
The sinking presumably cost the
lives of seven men, listed as missing.
One was believed killed by the first
torpedo blast and six others prob
ably drowned as two of the three
nfeboats launched were sucked I'M
der after the second torepdo hit the
Starboard side. -... ..-..u
The submarine apparently was
not completely disabled by the ships
machine gun, for one survivor said
that when he was struggling on an
overturned lifeboat he saw the sub
marine on the surface. Naval au-
thorities said many submarines
carried more than one periscope.
The machine gunners had only
seven minutes to answer their at
tacker and save themselves before
the ship plunged to the bottom of
the Caribbean Sea.
The story of the ships sinking
was told at the Sd Naval District
headquarters by Richard Bennett,
"a; William Olson, A, and John K.
Shauck. 40, all of Baltimore. Mr.
Bennett said the U-boat attacked
without warning and that he saw
its periscope from the bridge as it
crossed close to the ships stern
moment after the first torpedo hit.
The submarine struck at 5:25 pm.
(E. W. T) April 5, the first torpedo
smashing the radio aerial. The crew
managed to repair it few minutes
before the second torpedo hit so
that SOS calls could be dispatched.
The captain, who was not identi-
fed, was the last to leave his ship,
leaping overheard as she went to
the bottom
The 38 survivors were picked up
from a lfeboat and hferaft by a
rescue shin the following morning.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
R. A. F, Pressing Offensive,
Battles Germans Over France;
More Jops Pouring Into Burmo
Royee's 'Comoufioge'
Lures Jap Planes
To Waste Bombs
B, the Associated Press.

BN the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES ARMY
HEADQUARTERS IN AUS
TRALIA, April l6.-Brig. Gen.
Ralph Royce, who led the
American bombing raid on the
Philippines. disclosed today
that he fooled japanese bomb
ers by fixing up an old. de-
commissioned Bit flying for
tress on a Philippine landing
field
Four wooden "propellers' were
attached to the worthless plane
and new "camoufiage" was pro-
vided-not to conceal 1t but to
make the Japanese think con-
cealment was intended.
Sure enough, the japanese
came over and bombed 1t all
day. but their 13 twin-engined
bombers failed to find Gen.
Royce's base.
AS souvenirs of the ruSe Gen.
Royce displayed metal frag-
mentS with which japanese
bombs are filled. Several of the
pieces of scrap had Fore"
stamped on them.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Two More u. S. Vessels
Torpedoed in Atlantic

NORFOLK, Va, April 16 (P)-Tor-
pedoes gliding out of the darkness
on the early morning and night of
April 9 sank one American mer-
chantman, tore another in two and
apparently cost the lives of three
seamen off the Atlantic Coast, the
5th Naval District reported yester-
day. Sixty-three men aboard the
two vessels were rescued.
Twenty eight survivors of one of
the ships, a small merchant YES
sci, were picked up by a rescue
party after they had been adrift
for six hours and were brought
ashore the following day.
Navy spokesmen said Fireman
Earl Channess, jr., %, of Jackson
vile, Fla, was missing and presumed
lost. He jumped overheard when
the first of two torpedoes ripped
into the ship.
An hour and a half after the
other attack, 35 survivors of a
medium-sized vessel were picked
up and landed at Morehead City,
N. c. Two men dived overheard
from this ship to escape flames and
were believed lost.