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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-03
Take Ny Word for 1t
Surprise Word of the Week
BY FRANK COLBY.

How many syllables do you give
to the word VEGETABLE? Do you
say "VEDGE-tuh-b1"? Sorry. but
the word should have four distinct
syllables, so say all the diction-
aries. The correct pronunciation
is: VEDGE-e-tuh-bl.
Also, the word has a surprising
origin: It comes from the Latin
vegere, meaning ito be active;
lively; quick moving which is
precisely what we do not mean
when we say that we are begin
ming to "vegetate" And this proves
anew that words, especially those
from the Latin, have a way Of out
growing their original meanings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-03
Miner Coins Hours Sleep
By Mouse 1rop Alarm
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ORRICK, Mo.-A mouse trap
gives Joe Albertson, owner Of small
coal mine near here, another hours
sleep each morning.
A string runs from An alarm clock
to the mouse trap. When the alarm
goes Oh, the vibration Of the string
springs the trap.
The trap throws . switch that
starts an electric pump.
BY the time Mr.. Albertson and
his helpers arrive. all the water
which has seeped In overnight has
been pumped out Of the mine
and they can start work ilnmedi-
Ately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-03
Tacoma Project Needs
Some Kind Of Expert

~ the AoooetAted Press.
TAKOMA, Wash.-The City
Public Works Department has
Just discovered that q Federal hous-
ing project calls for 21-inch sewer
to serve part Of the homes and Is
inch sewer for others.
That's complicated, all right, but
what makes it worse is that both
these sewers are to hook up with
the city's regular S-incher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-03
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In Glass 2:e'|

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-03

I'M e1SS fASS 1&3S
West opened the king Of spades,
and East was obliged to win with
his blank ace. He returned the deuce
of diamonds, and West took the two
high diamonds, after which he exit
ed with the ten Of hearts.
South was now in his hand with
little apparent prospect of ever get
ting to dummy to cash the queen Of
diamonds and the jack of hearts.
But he saw no harm in cashing the
rest of his top hearts In the hope
of getting clue to the adverse
hands.
When both opponents followed to
three rounds of hearts. South knew
that West had . singleton club. He
had q six-card spade suit, known
from the bidding and the play Of the
first trick; he had three diamonds,
since East had returned the deuce
of that suit. showing exactly four,
and he had three hearts. That left
room In his hand for exactly one
club.
South, therefore, continued by
leading a low club from his hand!
East was obliged to win with the
jack, and any return was bound to
give dummy the lead. He made his
best try by returning the club queen,
South winning with the king.
Dummy then was entered with the
club ten, and the jack Of hearts
was cashed. At this point, South
had no entry to his own hand to
make his club ace. But he cashed
the diamond queen and led another
diamond. throwing East in once
again. Poor East, forced before to
yield entry to the dummy. now was
forced to lead a club, yielding entry
to the South hand!
Yesterday you were Oswald Jaco-
by's partner and, with neither side
vulnerable, you held:
Alta
. A 1888
9 962
= Us
The bidding:
Jacoby. Lightner. You. schenken.
10 Pass co
Answer-Bid one spade. You intend
to make at least two bids with this
hand, 50 can afford to show your
higher ranking suit first.
Score 100 per cent for one spade,
10 per cent for one heart.
Question No. 1920.
Today you hold the same hand,
and the bidding continues:
Jacoby. Lightner. You. 6chenken.
10 Pass IA Pass
INT Pass {?
What do you bid? ANSWER to-
morrow
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which removed It. have 1ettered Out
correctly they're . wartime favorite.
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Winning Contract
~ THE FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Durustone, Oswald ia
A. Lghtner. worlds leading teamed
four, inventors Of the system that
has beaten every other system IN
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
BROTHERLY DiSCORD

Pordon US for asking but how long
must those bIood-brother Aryons, HIT
Ter and Hirohito, hold hands before
they poss the presents. Strange tnot
these two fine fellows should not return
what oIIegedIy belongs to the other
Japan got the Caroline, Morsno''
and Marianne islands in the Poc'tIc
from Germany otter the lost war, Any
reasonable person would think the JoP-
onese-they officially made Hitler q
descendant Of their sun god -wou'o
give ear to AdoIfs howIs about restor-
ing lost colonies.
Germany crushed the Netherlands
before Japan seized the Dutch tost
Indies so undoubtedly the Sons or
Heaven will do the rig ht thing and let
their Nozi cousins help rule those pears
Of the Pacific. Come on, boys, set US
decodent nations q good example.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
High|ights from
the Latest Books

We can thank those wing
walking Winnies and parachute
Jumping Jennies of yesteryear
tor more than giving our hearts
the thumps at county fairs and
flying circuses. Their younger
sisters today are flying high
helping to make America what
we hope will be the strongest
nation in the air.
All this and much more comes
to light in Women with
Wings" (Harper. S2.75), by
Charles Z. Planck of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority. His book
easily stands out as one OF the
most readable and complete OF
any published on this neglected
but timely field.
Army, Navy and airline brass
hats generally tilt their noses
skyward at any hint that women
might be useful to the air ser
yices during wartime. Yet,
Planck reveals that many OF the
men plotting dive bombers'
fighters and bombers in battle
today got their first training
from women instructors IN the
CAA courses established in many
colleges. Planck also makes out
a good case for the use of women
to ferry war planes.
Napoleon thought so well OF
women in the air that he made
Madame Jean Blanchard his
chief of air service. That was
when the French were making
rapid strides with balloons and
Bonaparte seriously considered
attempting a balloon invasion oil
England. And you may be sur
prised TO learn that an American
woman-Aida de AcoSta-made
solo flight in Paris in power
cd aircraft five months before
the Wright brothers flew.
Planck tells the story of Am
erican heroines, both sung ane
unsung, of the air so well YOU
will begin to wonder If men hae
much to do with aeronauticS
And when you consider the car
GERS of Ruth Law, the StinSor
girls. Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nj
chols. Jacqueline Logan ant
others. it is undcniable that ever!
day is ladies' day in the sky.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
. McKENNY ON BRIDGE

rcbid before a 4-Carder is shown,
it is necessary TO find a forcing
rcbid here. The bid generally
shows five honor tricks"
(On the bid Of six heartS)
Since rebid after a force is
always trustworthy, the 3-spade
response guarantees fully bid
dablc suit. 1t follows that the
heart suit, which is lower-rank-
ing, must be at least five cards
long. Since the opener is not in
tercstcd in aces the 6-bid is
made directly $50.
The opening lead is won by
the ace OF trumps. A club is led
TO the ace and low club re-
turned for North to ruff. A
trump lead is won by the king
and another club ruifed. Dunn
my gets back with a diamond to
lead another club, ruled by
NorthS last trump.
North must take the precau-
ton OF cashing the spade ace
now. on which South discsrds
the two Of diamonds. Then a dla-
mond lead puts South in to lead
the long clubs.
West may take his queen Of
trumps whenever he pleases. lie
cannot interfere with declarer
plan OF play.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Writer

HOLLYWOOD, April 3-Its
spring in MovietoWn.
This has nothing to do with
the vernal equinox or the secret
findings of the weather man,
since the days lately have been
almost alike. In Hollywood,
spring is an inner aWareneSS, a
quickening of pulses, surge OF
confidence, a rcaSSuTance-Come
war or pestilence-of the essen
tial fecundity and richness and
goodness of a patient world.
These things are known even
by the two sparroWS nesting IN
the muzZle of an old cannon IN
front Of American Legion head
quarters. They also are known
60 Greta Carlo, who in her wall
ed estate has taken to running
around barefooted and climbing
trees.
Song writer's are pecring visit
fully from the windows Of their
smoky cubicleS and making
RHYMES about soft lips and a
balmy breeze instead of war
ships and the Nipponese. Pro
ducers are telling scenarlSts
there amt enough romance IN
this lousy script" At the Hays
office. the staff Of censors is re-
ported to have grown indulgent
Some of the screens veteran
heroes are being fitted with new
toupees, and with no gray
strands in EN-, either.
JAPS LOSE GARDEN
Everything seems quite as
yerdant as in other springs
Mexican gardeners took over
where the Japanese left off, anc
their chattering jallopies are ere
ating the same diversions anc
mcnaCes in city traffic. Bella Lu
gosi, the horror man, has bred
novel variety of dahlia, and bro
kcn-nOsed Victor McLaglen /!
using a new kind of fraGran
spray on his roses. Marlene Die
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Q HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

trich has a Victory Garden full
of chives) in a window box.
Wild peoples blanket the San
Fernando Valley.
Gophers, which are old hands
at building afraid shelters,
blink sleepily from their bur
rows at the bombers overhead.
Low-flying songbirds have been
quick TO learn and rejoice that
TIE laundering but aloof mon
Stcrs are friendly, since they
have driven hawks from the sky.
Linda Darnell has bought a
horse and buggy. Bob Taylor
and Barbara StanWyCk have a
tandem bike. Yacht owners still
spend Sundays on their boats,
even though the craft are inn
modified by Navy order. Fish
crmen who are city-bound by
the tire shortage find solace at a
concrete pool on Ventura Boule-
ward, where for 81 you can
catch three trout and have EN-
cooked in the adjoining restaur-
ant.
It's spring in Hollywood, and
comply dummieSjin the windows
of the little shops are wearing
the Skimpiest bathing suits ever
seen. Skirts on the bouleVards
seem TO have shrunk a couple
more inches, the cuties barring
their knees for conservation OF
materials and enhancement of
the scenery. The trim little
mattresses at the drive-in sand
witch stands have changed from
SlaCkS TO shorts.
BALD AS AN EGG
When Guy Kibbee fell asleep
on a sound stage, somebody put
an Easter egg transfer on his
bald pate. Women with the
urge TO do something about the
war are going first to depart
mcnt stores, inspecting the Varl'
Gus kinds of uniforms, and Their
Joining the outfits which are
most fetchingly costumed. Lana
Turner is nursing an all-oVer
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
BY PETER EDSON
Monitor-Leoder Washington
Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April )
For Ia days hearings Of the
little steel" labor cose have
been held before q three-m man
panel Of the National War To-
Dor Boord. In this time the
four companies, Bethlehem,
Inland, Republic ond Younes-
town, have stated their coses.
There will be q week or SO IN
which reports will be prepared
by the board panel. Then will
come rebutto and possibly re-
rebuttol. 1t may be the end OF
April before any decision is
handed down on the Steel
Workers Organizing Commit
tee demands for S. doy in
creoses, union closed job and
check-off.
The important foct in this
SlIuOtiOfl Is tfiOl Wih'C ''S"S
hearings ore In progress, the
$4,000 steel industry en-
pIoyes ore on the job. There is
no strike involved.
You may criticize the slow
ness Of this procedure os much
os you please. 1t is costly tor
management, labor and gov
eminent. 1t is filled with heod-
aches, for in all such ne9ot'o,
tons there is O deol OF pound
ING on tobIes, h urline OF
charges, ond losing Of tenPers
But you cont overlook the toc'
thot while all this goes on
wor production hos not stop
ped.
The hopefu|ness Of this con
dition is nevertheless in the
statistics on labor conditic n
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

So democracy doesn't work. It not
only works OF home but it works ct the
front.
A 23-yeor-old American douehboy
in Australia is q millionaire who gets
spending money in 500 bills. On duty
he chouffeurs lieutenant who used to
be sodo erker. r
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03

case Of sunburn. Somebody sent
Dorothy Lamour an Easter sar-
ong made of bunny fur-and APP
parently Of only one bunny.
George Raft has changed his
hair oil to heavier, summer
weight. Pretty girls are yoo-
hooing at soldiers in rumbling
truck conveys. Hedy Lamar
has found love with Montana
cowboy. rs spring in Holly
wood, and this reporter wants
to remind you that the dona-
ton Of pint of plasma for
wounded soldiers is a much bet
ter blood thinner than esulphur
and molaSSeS.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
FILLING THE ORDER

CHICAGO - Mrs. II. y. Rueg-
nitz received this announce
ment:
"Our two boys wanted sis
ter - so:
4. While on vacation we had
a choice Of cottages - Lassle
or Laddie. We took Lassie.
80. We moved from Indiana
avenue to ViC.et road, where
our neighbors had six daugh-
tiers.
80. Our .n-laws have five
girls, and we visited them Of
ten.
"a. We listened to Eddie Can
tor talk about his five daugh-
tiers.
IS. We read Little Women"
IS. We gave our sons dolls
"And now - we happily an
nounce the arrival of Andrea
JOAN"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03

The new bridge book, 'Cui-
bertson for the JoncscS, by
O'Bricn and Ocschgcr, explains
many slam methods, but advises
il is better TO bid slam directly
than TO confuse the issue by artl-
fetal bids.
Today'S hand and bidding are
quoted from the book.
con the bid Of three dlamondS)
While a 6-Card suit is generally
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profits they generally think Of taxes on
corporotions. Yet figures quoted Tues
day to the House of Representatives
Naval Affairs Committee indicate
there is something more to be consider
ed
From reports filed with the SecurI-
ties Commission Representatives Albert
Gore ID Of Tennessee cited soIor'es
and bonuses poid to executives Of cor
Dorotions in 1910 and l94l. In oddI-
ton to q salary Of $50, 900 the president
of building supply firm received q
bonus Of S46,O8l in 1910 which rose IN
l94l to Sl57872 A motor company
soles executive received an increase IN
conversation from $4,000 in 1910 to
more than $4,000 in l94l. Salaries
to certain officers Of other motor and
aircraft companies we're raised by from
100 to 700 per cent.
This was during period in which
citizens Of the Nation at large we're
toknq up their belts, as millions ore
doinq even more vigorously now, to
meet increased costs Of living, higher
taxes for defense, and possibly dsruP-
ton Of their ordinary occupations and
earnings. For the great body OF the
American public war has meant and
must mean q lowering Of moterloI
standards Of living Men in uniform ore
serving under fire for substantially the
pay soldiers received in Peacetme.
Millions have taken reduction in
buyinq power through rises in prices
while their salaries or wages have re-
moined stationary. Many Of these pay
personal income tax rotes that have
doubled or trebIed. If at the same time
there ore others whose incomes have
tremendously increased through bust
ness due to the war, surely that increase
ofincore is q prime subject for tOxo-
ton
If q corporations earnings have
risen markedly above Pre-wor levels, it
poys on excess profits tox Of from 35 to
90 per cent on that increase, and Con-
gress probably will further stiffen this
rate. In 1917 the excess profits tax op-
piled to incomes Of individuals os well
os Of corporations. There is good reoS-
on why that policy should be re-odoPtec
and expanded.
To tax not alone the income but
also, and in particular, the increase OF
income Of individuals during this pc
Rod would help to assure that there
will be equality Of sacrifice during the
war and no war njIIionoires otter it i;
over-From the Chrstion Science Mon
itor.
~
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY tn. Associated Press
READY, AIM AND i
MEAN FIRE

FORT RILEY, Kas.-A group
of soldiers were holding ma
chine gun practise.
Ready, aim" intoned the
officer.
Just then Ann Sheridan,
movie oomph girl who was Wis
ting the camp, walked by.
Fire.
bullets, landing far
wide of the target, started a
grass fire which wept 100 yards
before being extingUished.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
EXTR ACTION

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Patrol
man Fred Reed had a tooth
ache in his right hand for two
weeks, but he feels better to-
CAV after having the tooth ex-
tracted.
The ache began when the Of
ficer landed a haymaker on an
unruly prisoner awaiting trial
in police court After Reed de-
veloped blood poisoning from
a cash on his hand, doctor
probed the wound and removed
the tooth - which belonged TO
the prisoner.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
TURN THE OTHER TIRE

NOWATA, Okla. - The Rev
Harold Alb aham found me-
chanic's wrench while driving
near here, but he wasn't too
pleased.
He ran over the tool, running
one of his best tires.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03

The call is for action. Ihot means
action against the enemy. And the
enemy includes social Justice" for
thot publication is doing the enemys
work.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
NO DEATHS REPORTED

EDAN, Kas. = B r a K G
screeched aplenty on U. 5. l66
April Fools Day.
A tempting, we'll treaded
casing wos laying in the middle
OF the highway.
AS the motorists furitively
approached roadside pranksters
stepped out anc claimed the
tire.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
LESS THAN !
PER CENT LOST

The foregoing figures cover
oil industries, whether on war
or civilian production. When
the figures ore narrowed TO war
production, the picture looks
like this, again for the month
Of February:
There we're in that month
about IS million workers on
war production. Figuring "a
working days in thot month
there we're potential 80 bill
lion man days in employment:
Out Of that totol in q reported
q stoppoees Of work 'nvolV-
ina $4,000 employees, there
we're $1,000 mondays lost.
The percentage Of time lost is
$4,000 Of ! per cent-Iess
than 2HOO or $50 Of ] per
cent.
Contrast thot with February
loAl when there we're on estl-
NOTED ST million mon-d days
put in on national defense ond
strikes coused q loss Of 378,-
600 mon-doys-neorIy IS
times as high q percentage as
this year.
AS long as there is noin-
toined this tendency to keep
'em working while 'obor dis
putes ore being settled, this
lobor problem can be licked.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .


isSH
%Girls are all cutting and "triz-
zing" their hair.
The International Magazine
with a big puff of Mount Glenn
ems is out. Copies may be OBJ
tanned from c. w. Linneback-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
NlIXUP

ELKHART, Ind.-Tired from
a hard days work, Charles Judd
trudged away from his drug
store with letters TO mail In one
bag and money to deposit IN
another.
He went by mailbox and
the night deposit box at the
bank and reached home with
both bags empty.
Early next morning, ne was
one of the first customers al
the post office. -,
He'd discovered he had left
the letters at the bank and mail
ed the money.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

The firm of Giddings, Rowley
e. Co. at Romeo offers their
business for sale.
Lonsby & Son are making the
long contemplated changes IN
their planning mill.