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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 1.-THE
Algeresque true stories of Movie
town have a familiar pattern,
but they're always good. At least,
they're always relished by the
movie people who like a little
drama as we'll as a happy con-
clusion to their struggles.
Take Milton Holmes, young
man who wanted to become a
writer. In the screen capital, the
closest he could get to impor-
tant people was a job taking care
of the courts at the Beverly Hills
Tennis Club. While doing that,
he wrote a story. But nobody
would look at it-not even the
tennis fiends who had been most
cordial to him at the club. There
was a director who'd even lend
Holmes a ten-spot before pay
days, but refused to read the
manuscript.
Last Friday the youngster Dor
rowed again, commenting hope
fully it might be the last time be-
cause Cary Grant had the story
and had promised to read it. Next
morning Holmes was called to
RKO. handed a check for $40, 900
for Bundles for Freedom" and
signed writing contract at $500
a week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17

petition is such as to insure fair prices
so far as retoil outlets are concerned"
In some circles. the belief has been
held that retoi|ers are largely respon-
sible for the increase in prices thot
have taken place. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. The retailer hos
no influence whatsoever over the
wholesale price levels. He must pay
the going price, odd his operating cost
and q small profit to that, and charge
the consumer the total.
What retailers can do is to i'm
prove their own operating standards
so that retail price increases can be
held to the minimum. And thousands
of merchants, chain and independent
alike, have been doing that with
conspicuous success. They have elm
inoted unnecessary middIemon opera
tons. They have pursued for-si9hted
buying policies, so as to obtain stock
at the most favorable time They have
opposed speculation and profiteering.
In many instances they have voIuntor-
lily reduced their own profits. They
have helped the consumer choose SUBJ
stitutes for costly or scarce articles,
and they have given valuable nutri-
tionoI advice. All Of this is Of direct
service to the American family.
The outstanding chain and nde-
pendent merchants ore doing all they
can to fight initiation.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Stors and Stripes Wave
In Bermuda Second Time

bermuda, under the sover-
- eighty OF Great Britain, flies
the Stars and Stripes over naval
and air bases for the second time
in the history OF the idyllic island
vacation spot.
The stamp above, issued in l94l
is the first Bermuda airmail adj
hesive. The design bears a por-
trait Of King George vi in the up
per right-hand corner and view
of some OF the $50 islands that
comprise the Bermuda group.
An important way station foi
clippers flying the Atlantic at
present, Bermuda furnished gun
powder for Washington's army,
figured in the War Of 1912, based
Confederate blockade runners in
the Civil War. and served as naval
base for u. S. forces in the hrst
World War. II is more important
geographically to the U. s. than 70
its mother country. England.
The islands are 666 nautical
miles southeast of New York,
about three hours bombing dis
lance. Army aircraft operating
from bases recently built under
leases granted last year. will have
an approximate 750-mile radius TO
almost any point on the east coast,
from Halifax. N. s.. to Nassau In
the Bahamas.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
BY VIM. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

Yesterday l explained that
opening leads, as we'll as every
other phase of defensive play,
are governed by the principle
that the surest guide to accurate
defense is a reading of patterns,
the distribution of suits and
cards. The reading of high-card
holdings is secondary, if only be-
cause the differences on which it
is based are much less certain.
For example, il /. our partner
has bid a suit and you have the
opening lead, your choice of
card is primarily governed by
the length in your partners
suit. The general principle is
that with four or more, you open
the fourth highest; with three or
less you open the top. This dis
tinction as to length is the sur
est guide you can give your
partner as TO the defensive value
OIL MS suit.
Learn the rule that way, then
note the exceptions made for
certain high-card situations.
With two honors in sequence at
the top of your holding, lead the
top of the sequence regardless
of length Except that with the
ace-king, lead the king firsD
Having the ace, you usually lead
it (for fear of losing it) against
a suit contract.
With three cards headed by
the jack or higher, without the
next lower card in sequence,
lead the lowest card against a
no trump contract. Here the
object is to hold your honor
over the declarer 10 kill q poten-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
High|iehts from
the Latest Books
BY JAMES E. HILBERT

Emil Ludwig now aouS 10 Ills
barrel of biographies the figure
of South Americas Liberator
with Bolivar" (Alliance: $500
Napoleon, Bismarck, Lincoln,
Roosevelt, Goethe, Hindenburg,
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Schlie-
mann, Masaryk-thus the
worlds great have sat for Lud-
wigs penportraiture, and to
them is now added, by commits
sion of the Academia di Historic
of Venezuela, Simon Bolivar, tn,
aristocratic, wealthy idealist
who freed half continent from
foreign rule and presented its
people with the liberty they are
still learning rather gingeraly
to use.
Little is added to the facts of
Bolivars career which are al
ready available in Ybarra, Vau-
caire, O'Rourke and other re-
cent biographers in English.
Ludwig's services lie in his par
ticular attention to the develop
ment of Bolivar's political and
personal ideals as the rich boule-
Warbler who became in turn a
libertarian, a dictator, a rejected
and broken outcast, and finally
q legend of liberty.
In today's world as the rela-
tionships between colonialism,
autocracy, democracy, dictator
ship and tyranny are again be-
ing tested, and especially while
the American republics are again
trying to realize Bolivar's 100
year-old dream of American
unity, Ludwig's portrait Of the
Liberator's mind is especially
serviceable. Literally sprinkled
with excerpts from Bolivar's
letters and writings, cited by
Ludwig as his principal source,
this is a story of a sensitive,
idealistic mind and what hap
pened to it in life of action.
Hence it is especially welcome
reading in a period when once
again action dominates the
world.
Because of this special rich
ness in the field of mental and
spiritual struggle and develop
ment, and in the relationships
between Bolivar and such other
figures in the struggle as Mi
randa, San Martin, Sucre, Paez,
Santander, Manuela Saenz and
Rodriguez Robinson, the lack OF
detailed descriptions of Boil
vars military campaigns is in
evitable.
In the midst Of struggle for
freedom on the scale of today's
war, this story of the struggle OF
more than 100 years ago as re-
vealed by the mind of South
Americas George Washington Is
an absorbing study, with Ludwig
making the most. as usual, Of Its
dramatic possibilities.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

tial low stopper he may hold.
We shall now consider the
table of blind opening leads
the choice of card to lead from
a suit bid by no other player.
The most desirable opening
leads are from suits headed by
solid sequences. Thus a lead
from the queen-jack-ten COM
mences knocking out the ace and
king, wherever they lie, and
works toward the forcible. estab-
lishment of one of the sequence
as high-card trick.
In leading from such strong
combinations, the leader must be
careful to choose the right card.
BY conventional agreement, GER
tain leads show certain possible
combinations of high cards and
deny others. In these articles l
will list and explain all the
standard leads. Note that one
lead may be correct against a no
trump contract and another may
be correct against suit contract.
Against no trump, the opening
of the ace asks partner to fol-
low with his highest card, so
that the leader may judge
whether his suit is solid. This
lead is therefore correct only
with suit which by reason of its
length or strength, or both,
probably will be solid IL partner
turns up with the missing honor
or with two or three small cards
Of the suit.
The lead of a king against no
trump normally asks partner to
follow with his second highest
card. With the jack and a low
card, the partner should usually
play the jack.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
A GESTURE OF FAREWELL

very QuIetIy OI'o WitiiOut ''u|'
public notice, Congress is doing away
with Section 7 Of the Neutrality Act
Thot is the section which provided tho,
no person in the United Stotes might
lend money to q foreign government
at war.
Of course the section no longer
means anything, now that we are &C.
tuoIIy at war, and SO it must be re-
peoled
What is happening is more inter
estine than thot
1t is no less than the complete wip-
ing out of 2O-yeors' philosophy,
drowned in the tidal wave of actual
events, submerged in the flood Of fost-
flowing history.
After the First World War came q
period Of intense establishment. Oh
viousIy the objects for which the war
was fought we're imperfeotIy realized
How could an America still living in
the "spIendid isoIotionism" Of the 18th
century have been sucked into" Eu-
ropes war? People began to question.
They found plenty thot was ques-
tionobIe. They found smelly nests OF
secret diplomacy They found that mu-
nitions had been privately monufoo-
tured and sent obrood at big profits.
They found huge private loans to the
allies. They deduced that these things
brought us into the war. How avoid
ohother war; Simply by not doing those
things.
1t was not that simple. Greater
forces we're at work. The Neutrality Act
protected us against loon-entonele-
ment. Not only did we make few NUM-
tons for the ollies-we virtually obol-
ished our munitions industry, so that
when war came, we had to build one
from Scratch
In the months before war came, nc
private interests had loaned money tc
fighting nations. Cash and CORY guar.
onteed that such munitions as we're pri.
voteIy furnished to beIIeerents were
paid for on the borreI-heod. No privote
financial interests, then, we're drawing
us toward war. Yet war came closer ono
closer, and finally it struck, treocher-
ousIy and without warning.
A bigger game was being played
than q mere Juggling with loans ono
munitions. The stake was the domino.
ton Of the world, and we stood in the
way. Our whole outlook, eeored to G
microscopic view of q single phase Of
the First World War problem, was bIinc
to the largest phase Of the new prob
lem. Like France, sold always to be
prepared for the previous war, we took
oil our measures to prevent the previ.
Gus war. II helped to blind US to the
realities of this one.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
TIME ON THEIR HANDS

LANSING, MICH.-Passage
of a bill by the Michigan legis-
lature returning the state to the
Central Time zone prompted
one feminine critic to write Gov.
Murray D. Van Wagner:
II favor the new time eastern
War Time) at night, but the old
time is much better in the morn
ing. Since l can't have both,
let's leave it as it is"
The Governor has indicated
he'll veto the measure.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17

a prominent consultant, but he
welcomed the commission.
Here's a previously unrevealed
chapter in the rise Of Victor Ma
ture: Three years ago, when he
was living in a tent out here, the
studios wouldn't even look at
him. Finally he scraped up
enough money to 60 east, but the
stage didn't want him, either,
and he took a job as Onslow
Stevens valet for SIS a week and
his keep. After seven weeks he
got a call from the Pasadena
Playhouse. He appeared in one
play and Immediately was hired
by Hal Roach for movies. 1t was
mostly through barechested roles
that the ex-valet went on to star
dom.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
YES 1T is!

YES 1T is!
LOS ANGELES-A Los An
geles Brewing Company is
warming up two teams of draft
horses and wagon.
Just in case we might have
to use them exclusively. It's a
natural result of tire rationing,"
explained general manager
Charles Lick.
"Our hardest job probably
will be finding men to drive the
horses. It's a little different
from shifting gears"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

sSt w OSttO'ss ~ k<Sv SStU w
raw materials will come in by
truck.
The whole ideo Of sub-con.
troctino is based on tronspor-
totion of ports from the sub
contractor to the assembly
plant by truck. II the truck
transport system brooks down,
war production breaks down.
It's thot importont. War pro-
duction means nothing unless
the goods can be moved.
This is, as Transportation
Director Joseph B. Eostmon
soys. not q job which can be
shifted to the railroads. THE
foot u.s." says Eostmon, the
railroads themselves ore among
the largest users Of trucks ).
in RAILROAD terminal operations
and in substitution for the old
way freight train SERVICE"
Next to this heavy industrial
truck freight troffic. perhaps
the most important truck foe
tor is form use Of such vehi-
cles. ne-fourth of all trucks
in service today ore on formsx
According to Robert F. Black,
head of White Motor Company.
these farm trucks haul to mar
kets some II per cent of the
nations butter, 80 per cent Of
its eggs, 40 per cent Of the
fruit and vegetables, 81 per-
cent Of its cottIe, SO per cent
Of its hogs, s. per cent OF the
totoI livestock.
Cut down on the formers
use Of trucks and whot hop
pens to the nations food sup
ply? It's q bit too scoy to think
about.
SERVICE AS USUAL" OUT
1t is the threatened restric-
ton on light truck use which
hits the urban dweIIer horder
than any other enrichment, for
here you get into the whole
field of city jewellers which
stores have built up so extern
sively in recent years. The
whole concept Of Service as
usual" is in for q change.
Competing doiries mi IN I
have to consolidate their milk
routes. The same thing goes
for the bread woeon and the
huckster. Already customers
ore being requested to corN1
home their own groceries to-
save rubber on delivery trucks.
Toxicob service may have to
be urto led tremendously.
Two-cor fomiIies may have to
oct back to q one-cor bosis.
The $1,000 rural mail cor
riers now riding on rubber may
find their regular daily trips
cut down, or Toxic to horse. ex-
press pickup and delivery pro-
cedure may be modified.
Your doctor, the ombulonces,
the health services and similar
essentials will be kept rolling,
but in practically every other
phose Of transportation, the
country stands ready to be put
back where it was some Ploce
in the five years preceding
World War !.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
BY PETER EDISON
Daily Monitor Washington
Corrosnondent

WASHINGTON Feb. II
Just as the country's passenger
transportation is dependent on
the private automobile, so its
houline of goods is dependent
upon trucks. The changing
conditions of q war economy
ore destined to revolutionize
the trucking industry to q de-
gree which few American peo-
pie reoIize.
1t is estimated there ore roll
ing over the notions highways
today some as million trucks.
Thot's one truck for every 30
people, q rotio nowhere op-
prooohed in any other country.
Of these as million trucks,
more than rs million ore
heavy and medium trucks
weighing 900 pounds or more,
the rest light deliveries. Before
PeorI Horbor, more than q
fourth Of these trucks were
hauling defense goods.
In the current truck model
year, ending July 81, the mo-
tor truck industry will turn out
$4,000 trucks, or 100000
more than in the preceding
model year. BY Aug. !, 1912,
there will be an Indicted ST.
million trucks on the highway.
There isn't the conversion
problem in the truck factories
that there is in the passenger
automobile industry. Produc-
ton Of light trucks was stopped
this month, but in the medium
and heavy truck industries the
Shift to war production hos
meant merely the shift to mill
toy models and then full speed
ahead with on A-3 priorities
order to insure that they get
the necessary raw moteriols.
For O lot Of these trucks. how
ever, there ore no tires. They'll
simply have to go in storage
till rubber is available.
IMPORTANT TO
WAR PLANTS
To give you on ideo OF how
the war industries depend on
trucks, consider q few typical
war production plants. At the
Ford YpsiIont bomber plant, q
fourth of the raw materials
will come in by truck, three
fourths by roll. Outgoing, o.
per cent Of the production will
move by truck. 40 per cent by
air. At the Chrysler tank orse-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
MISPLACED BLAME

Any control Of prices must be ex-
0risod at the source" sold the Sea-
Dragon, Signal recently. "Reto,I
= ~ have no more control over price
~ Consumer Ia al important
IT, cost Of living. retail COM
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
/, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

a prominent consultant, but III
welcomed the commission.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17

WHOSE WAR IS IT.
The shallow, the oowordly and the
seIf-seekers ore again giving tongue.
Once again. this time here in Amer
lea, the weorisome Hitler Pottern takes
form in the focIe questions Of the mis-
Guided, the uniformed and Of the
treocherous.
WHY should we fight EneIonds
war;" they ask.
Lets keep our troops at home and
play sofe," they cry.
1.-THE oxs can't be stopped" they
whine.
Disruption Of national unity. in
time Of peril, is their goal.
The United Stotes Of America is in
this war to win. And it shall win. But
the funines of Axis-nspred little
people" must be stfIed. Truly THEY
know not what they say"
The United Stotes was brutoIIy at
tocked by q member Of the Axis lineup.
Thousands Of its sailors and its soldiers
have already died on for-fIune bottle
grounds. British victory is synonymous
with American victory. Our cause is one
with thot Of London.
Utter destruction Of those powers
which oppose freedom democracy and
the rights of man must be achieved
before men can walk unofroid in this
world.
Greet Britoin, Russio, the Neither
lands and Chino can, and will, give in
valuable aid to the American cause.
The miserable voporines Of those
who cost ospersions at our honorable
allies ore as truly Un-Americon and as
inestimobIy dangerous as are the paid
soboteurs. Usually they ore 5th-coIumn-
inspired. olthoueh voiced, in the main,
by Anticipated, unthinkine Americans.
They will not be permitted to fur
ther foster disruption among our
peoples.
Americans ore unofroid in this as in
every other crisis.
The Civil War, the First World War
and, in fact, virtually every struggle in
which this notion has participated,
have posed serious questions, deadly re-
verses and long, oeonizne periods of
doubt. But victory always, os it shall
this time, came to American arms.
Let it not be sold thot modern
Americans do not possess the spirit
ond the fighting stamina that char
octerized their forefothers.
This is as definitely our war as is
any that ever was woeed beneath the
Stors and Stripes The cause Of democ-
rocy and Of freedom is always the
American couse 1t hos been our war
from the moment that the first goose
stepping Nozi trooper crossed the bor-
ders Of Poland. Greet Britain has in
effect, fought the cause of mankind
for over two years thot we might train
men and prepore for our own defense.
As for those whimperine ones who
would, by ugly whisperines and vogue
questions, disrupt the American Will
to-Win, you eon-ond shouId-mork
them down as misfits, as weokIinos or
as troitors.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17

to interview her five years ago,
after she had played a bit in
Quality Street" and had zoom-
ed to a leading role in Music
for Madame" We talked in the
office of a producer, and he and
an associate interrupted from
time to time with such unstint-
ing praise and glowing predic-
tions that l was embarrassed for
the quiet, sensible girl.
They said she'd be a big star
within a year, but within a year
her name was anathema. Music
for Madame" was pretty bad, and
so were her roles in some later B
pictures. Eventually, they fired
her.
When her first real triumph
came in "Rebecca," you could
have knocked over her former
bosses with a burst Of applause.
In fact, they were knocked over
and out of their jobs. The new
regime at RKO lost no time in
borrowing Miss Fontaine from
David Selznick for Suspicion"
DESIGN FOR SUCCESS
In 1888 a young architect came
to Hollywood to get into the de-
signing end of the movie bust
ness. He couldn't even get inside
a studio or arrange an interview.
About four years later, Para
mount sent inquiries around the
country to find the architect
most capable of designing an en-
tire new studio. The man selected
was the gent mentioned above
William Pereira, of Chicago and
points east. BY this time he was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-17
RISE OF FONTAINE

There's a typical Hollywood
tale behind Joan Fontaine's per-
Torrance in Suspicion" a
job of acting expected to win the
Academy Award.
I was the first correspondent
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-05-16

caused some four miles Of the creek
bed to drop about 1000 feet.
Based on production from the previ-
ously known channel section Of gold
valued at about $4,000 per mile OF
the channel for 10000, 600 years, Elliott
estimated the new discovery should
yield from $4,000 900 to $40, O00. 900.
Elliott's theory viii be tested by the
Alder Greek Mining Corp. which has
announced plans to drill test holes as
soon as the heavy spring snow runoff
has ended.
Alder gllch was the scene Of Mon
tana's second early day gold rush. The
precious yellow metal was first found
in western Montana's Deer Lodge val
ley in 1852 by Francois Finlay, Scotch
Indian peddler, but the first real
stampede was to Bannack, afterward
the territorial capital. in 1852.
Alder gulch first made news the
following year. when party Of pros
pectors enroute to the diggings at
Bannack was attacked by Indians, be-
came lost and took refuge in the gulch.
Noticing nkely-looking gravel, these
prospectors-their names now yelled by
the passage OF Unrestricted panning
and discovered what has since been
called the richest piece Of ground for
its size ON the North American con-
tinent.
The gulch made national news when
Sidney Edgerton, first territorial gov
ernor Of Montana. sewed some Of the
gold dust into the lining Of his coat
and took It TO Washington. where 1t
jousted for newspaper space with the
latest news Of the day from the war
between the states.
1t made headlines again when road
agents from Robbers Roost," now
rotting landmark In Madison county,
banned" gulch gold with six-guns,
only to fall heir to vigilante- prepared
graves on Virginia Citys boothill.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-05-16
Stock ShOuC HOnOrs
Pioneer CGttLenlen

The 18th annual Little international
livestock show held at Montana State
college May 8 and under the spon-
EorSaip of the college Agriculture club,
was dedicated to two Montana pio-
neers-Pete Pauly, sheepman OF Deer
Todge and William P. Sullivan, cattle
man OF Square Butte-in recognition OF
their outstanding service to the live
stock industry Of the state.
Sullivan came TO Montana In 1898
from his home near Freeport, Ill he
was first employed by the McLeisch
brothers at one Of their prairie lamb
ing camps Ia the Fort Benton country.
Later he met foreman for the Miner
Cattle Co, who persuaded him TO go
to work for the outfit. he remained