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Evening star., 1942-03-28
Thousands Stand in Rain Here
To Purchase 1912 Car Licenses

half hour to get their tags, though
the new system can accommodate
approximately 1000 applicants an
hour.
Mr.. Van Duzer predicted there
would be even a greater jam Mon
day and Tuesday, and admonished
car owners to get down early. Win
doWs open at 8:l5 am. and close at
AIS pm.
Approximately 1000 plates were
issued today. Sales of new tags to
date total approximately l22,5OO, as
compared with 129, 900 on the same
date last year.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

Several thousand motorists today
stood in the rain and formed a
block long line at the Department
of Vehicles and Traffic waiting to
buy 1912 automobile license plates.
New tags have been on sale at
the Traffic Department in the new
Municipal Center Building since
February 27. They must be on all
cars which appear on the streets
after midnight Tuesday. There will
be no extension of time, Traffic Di-
rector William A. Van DuZer said.
Persons who stood in the bad
weather waited 20 minutes to
Evening star., 1942-03-28
Eddie Arcuros Purents
Of Bouncing Boby Girl

Ry the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, March 28.-The Ed
die Arcaros-he's the famous jockey
were proud parents today. A
daughter, weighing Ga pounds and
quickly named Carolyn Patricia. was
born to them yesterday.
Arcaro rode Whirlaway TO his
spectacular victories last year, and
among this years winners for him
were the $4,000 Flamingo with Re
ouested and the $50,000 Widener
with The Rhymer
Evening star., 1942-03-28
British Roid Airports
In Low Countries
~ tba A.soc;,t.d Dress

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 28.-British
bombers attacked airdromes in the
occupied Low Countries last night,
but bad weather prevented large
scale raids over the enemy territory,
the Air Ministry announced today.
The ministry said mines were laid
Evening star., 1942-03-28
Java Sea Engagement
Forced Dissolution
OF He|frich Command
Dutch Novy Spokesman
Points Out Allied Ships
Went to Different Ports
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A SOUTH PACIFIC PORT. March
28-A Netherlands Navy spokesman
said today that the unified COM
mand of the United Nations naval
forces under Dutch Vice Admiral
C. E. L. Helfrich had to be dissolved
after the first big engagement in
the Java Sea February q when
Allied ships withdrew to different
refuel ports.
1T is to be regretted" Aneta
Netherlands news agency, quoted
him as saying, that after the Incl
dent the Allied force went to differ
ent refuel ports. because the next
day 1t had become impossible to
concentrate again and form a new
squadron that should have had a
better chance to break through the
enemy, even though he had superior
forces
Owing to the impossibility of re-
concentrating. the unified command
was dissolved. each of the Allied
admirals in the Southwest Pacific
taking his own ships under his di-
rect command"
He said Admiral Helfrich ordered
the attack on the superior Japanese
fleet in the Java Sea because he
believed all must be risked-'even
the then available Allied forces
to save the Soerabaja naval base.
Evening star., 1942-03-28
Envelopes Re-EnIisted

Tests made recently in England
to reduce the paper shortage showed
that a good quality envelope can be
used more than a dozen times in the
mail and remain intact If adhesive
labels are used over the sealing flap.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

at several points during the night.
-Four planes were reported miss
ing.
The bad weather put damper
on r. A. F. operations after two
successive heavy night raids on
vital German war industries in the
Ruhr.
Evening star., 1942-03-28
EVANGELIST Plans Bible Quiz

Dale Crowley. evangelist. will con-
duct the 57th Bible quiz from sos
to $50 o'clock tonight over radio
station WWDC.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

How swiftly we get new geography
lessons these days! And how far do
these Japanese odmiroIs spread them
selves! BY attacking the AIeution IS
lands they shift the scene Of war in the
Pacific 5000 to 10000 miles from the
Boy of Bengal and the Coral SEQ.
BY the time this is read enough may
be known about these attacks to dis
close the Japanese purpose clearly. So
far they look like foroys designed
to test American defenses in Alaska or
forestoII attack from the North. Like
ony offensive, they enjoy the odvon-
toges Of surprise and Of making the de-
fender prepare at many points.
What follows the Dutch Horbor
raids should soon show whether they
herald on offensive against Alaska, or
we're port Of q defensive reconnois-
sonce. MonifestIy launched from air.
croft carriers, the attacks could be 3D.
vance notices such as preceded landing
in the Philippines and the Dutch In
dies. But for any real invasion it would
appear necessary for the Japanese to
move soon to make the approach to
Alaska secure. This would require the
I~ong-expected attack on Siberia. With
out that, raids on Alaska are likely to
to be merely raids.
Certain distance factors place Jo-
pan OF q disadvantage for an invasion
Of Alaska although landings might be
simple on q for-fIung coostIine. From
Seattle or Spokane, Dutch Horbor is
only about 100 miles. Reinforce
ments, particularly dir endorsements,
can go quickly and by protected routes.
On present information the attacks op-
pears to have more connection with
Tokyo's plans about Siberia. - From
the Christion Science Monitor.
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. McKENNY ON BRIDGE

in the country took part, and the
championship went to the Phila-
delphia team consisting of Mrs.
r. c. Young, Charles H. Goren,
Mrs. Benjamin NJ. Colder and
Charles j. Solomon.
Mrs. Young demonstrated her
skill in the hand shown today.
On the opening lead dummy
played the jack of spades, but
East played low and the king
fell. Mrs. Young, sitting South,
led a low heart and the ten
forced the zee. A spade return
took out Mrs. Young's last stop
per. A second heart lead was
won by the jack and thu the
king was caShed. When the suit
failed to split, Mrs. Young led
the fourth heart anyhow, as the
only chance was to Fl West
with the club king and no more
spades.
West eXited with a diamond;
the jack won and declarer CASH
ed the two tops. Then the ace of
clubs followed by a low club,
which South ducked, gave West
two club ticks, but he had to
give Mrs. Young the queen for
her ninth trick.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

inqs such as Rostock and Saint Ma
zoire will reach German submarine
building and operotionoI bases. But to
accomplish thot, the onti-submorine
attack in the Atlantic must be suffi-
Gent to assure thot heavy supplies will
continue to reach the RAF. bases Of
operation.
Congress has just heard that o
than 100 combat ships will have been
launched by the Navy by the end Of
this year. This should make q great
difference in the depredotions by the
submarine wolf packs. In foct, the
Navy must beat the submarine menace
if land offensives are to succeed
From the Christian Science Monitor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
BY PETER EDISON
Monitor-leoder Washington
Correspondent

Just about as important as
the immobiIized French fleet,
from the American point of
view, are half q dozen six
engined French flying boats,
recently completed by Air
France with Nozi approval,
and now flying. These big
transports, nearly twice the
size Of the original Boeing
Pan = American clippers, we're
designed primarily as luxury
cir liners for trans = Atlantic
passenger trade. Outbreak Of
the war stopped work on the
ships, but word leaks out Of
France that they have been
stripped Of their fancy trim
baths and bars, and converted
into French versions Of the
Mors-type long range naval air
bomber, with suspicious bulges
and bIisters that might be
bomb bay and gun turrets.
The foct that materials for
their conversion we're olIocot-
ed by the Nozis is significant.
Four Of the boats ore supposed
to be under supervision Of
Vichy and two ore in occupied
France. If the Nozis could get
control Of the fleet, here might
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

Food will win the Songs will
win the war. Airpower will win the war.
Slogans will win the war.
We'll, why not? None of these alone,
but all together. We do not need pep
ping up. rover there" and "Tipperory"
helped q lot in 1918. So did "Let's make
the world safe for democracy"
No toPnotch song has come yet in
this war, but many good enough sIo-
gons ore popping up. Contests in some
300 plants produced q few quotobIe
industrial o~djurotions such, for exam
pie, as American Steel and Wires
"Speed the wheels to beat the heeIs";
or Western EIectric's IT. N. TO-
doy, not tomorrow" "Speed 'em for
Freedom" advised Curtiss-W Wright.
Next, can somebody coin on overall
cotchPhrose that will have the punch
Of World War Is THE Yonks are conn.,
ing? Or how about just keeping the
same one?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

Minutes make hours, hours make
days, days make years, and years make
q lifetime. So we all try to ave min
utes. Some safety wizard has doPed it
out.
Take q man whose earning career
has Is years to go. That makes b.
l48,64O minutes. Figure it out, if you
will. We did, allowing for six leap
years. We dash across the street
cgoinst q light. If we win, we save q
minute. If we lose, we donate up to l3
million minutes to Death.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
o High|ights From Books

The congressman who fought
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, the
men who opposed his plans to
prepare United States for newt
able War-and the voters who
sent those solOns to Washing
ton, havee a bit of required read
ing in Frank c. Waldrop's Mac
Arthur on War" (Duell, Sloan
and Pearce: So. Here, in the
generals own words, in his
speeches and in his annual re-
ports as chief of staff, are the
predictions of what has become
fact today.
The military genius of the man
is recognized throughout the
world today, even by the axis,
but 10 years ago he was smear
ed and slandered as a militarist
and war monger. America can
thank Macarthur for what it has
today-the nucleus Of a potent
world army.
It's MaCArthur's army, as Wal
report shows. AS chief of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

north than anything out of Mein
Kampf."
OF 100000, 900 people in
Latin America, so, 1000, 900 are
sick, suffering from all the
diseases common in the United
States, plus many savage illness
es of which we know nothing.
Wilson outlines the staggering
immensely Of South Americans
public health problem, and clear
ly indicates our responsibility
in helping TO meet the situation.
Ambassadors in White is not
dull, dry, or statistical. In his
biographies of famous doctors
and some who have never been
headlined, Wilson finds much
that is thrilling, adventuresome,
and romantic.
If you like biography, here's
one that will keep you up past
the famous midnight on the sub
jeCt. Biographers this year will
have to ride hard and far to beat
Paul Revere and the World He
Lived In (Houghton Mifflin:
$3.50. by Esther Forbes.
You will learn that Revere
not only rode to warn of the
Redcoats' approach, but many
times carried vital information
from one colony to another dur
ing the critical Revolutionary
times. Likewise he wrote some
of the most inflammatory anti
George III propaganda, helped
establish needed powder mills,
officially chosen to write
one of the letters of coincidence
to Mrs. Washington after the
first Presidents death, sheathed
Ironsides' with copper roll
ed in his mill, and was a mighty
useful citizen.
Revere rode and worked to
make America. Today Americans
may well be re-inspired by this
very readable account of one of
our great heroes. In this book he
becomes a man, not a myth.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

wanted to film the story of DR..
Wassell. A few minutes later
they put in a call for Secretary
Steve Early at the White House.
A telegram went to Navy Secre-
tary Frank Knox and another to
the Hays Office as a filing of
DeMille's claim to the movie
rights. An announcement from
Washington said DeMille would
get the story, and Navy Relief
would get the money paid for It.
James Hilton will write the
yarn first, in book form, and the
screen play will be patterned
from his work. This seems like
a pretty roundabout procedure,
but Hilton insisted on it. He al
ready has interviewed members
of the Wassell family, and to-
day | looked over more than 400
pages of detailed statements OBJ
tanned from the rescued men.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
.June 16-E,

HOLLYWOOD, June l6-For
a good many years, DeMil,e of
de movies has ground slowly, and
OF a flneneSS sufficient to make
an awful lot of money at the
bOX-Office. Most of his super
dOopers have reached back into
history, and his preparation of
them has been, in its way, al
most as leisurely. He always
keeps a few ideas in the back
Of his mind for seasoning, and
when one of them is brought
forth for active development, the
fanfare and whoop-to-do are
reminiscent of the selection of a
Tibetan baby destined for the
robes of the Grand Llama.
1t is customary for DeMilIe to
hire a corps of writer's and as
sign them to various duties of
research, creation and polishing.
The old master now dons riding
pants and puttees and commutes
between his city home, his
mountain retreat and his office
for mediation and conferences.
AS pages of the script are sub
mitted to him, he reWrites them.
Sketches of sets are returned by
him with notationS to erect a
Norman castle here, and to have
a river wind out of the forested
hills. After a few months, he
gathers up a cast and starts
shooting. Before the year is out
a new DeMille epic, each n in
evitably the greatest is on the
screen.
COMES A SHOCK
Hollywood has been so ac-
Customed to this somewhat pom
derous procedure that it couldn't
even believe the news that Ce-
Gil Brobdingnagian DeMille had
Snatched a brand-new idea in
10 minutes and had set wires
buzzing al over the country with
his determination to rush it into
Celluloid. Not only that, but it's
a modern story. A war yarn,
and true.
1t started during the broad
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
HAM ON THE LAM

PHILADELPH A - A 500
pound pig broke up an after
noon tea at the estate of social
~ prominent Mrs. Thomas @.
Ashton.
1t drove the guests to cover,
wrecked glasses, consu m c d
cakes and cones, and finished
its meal from a bed of petunias.
Patrolman Philip MINIS, who
captured it after a chase through
Mrs. Ashton's gardens, said it
had fallen from a passing truck
cnroute to market.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
o HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

cast by President Roosevelt in
which he described the exploits
of four new American heroes.
One of these was DR.. Corydon E.
WaSSell, a 58-year-old ArkanSan
who had been a medical mis-
sionary in China and was COM
missioned a Navy lieutenant
commander after Pearl Harbor.
During the Japanese occupation
Of Java he evacuated nine
wounded men from the interior
of the island during incessant
bombings, took them 1900 miles
through the enemy blockade and
airplane attacks to safety in
Australia. He won the Navy
cross for doing it.
Before the President was off
the air, DeMille was exCitedly
telephoning Y. Frank Freeman,
head of Paramount, that ne
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
CHORE BOY

Only 10 per cent Of oil the
coses handled by the Federal
Trade Commission inVov We
charges Of illegal price fixing,
and only half Of those would
grant the chairman Of the War
Production Boord the right to
c certify wartime exemption
from citation under the ETC
oct. The work Of the ETC in
safeguarding free and fair
competition in business will
therefore continue almost
without change during the
war.
In addition to its regular
chores, however, ETC hos to-
ken on O big load Of war work
for other government ogen-
cies, and practically two-thirds
of its examining and legal
stoff has been assigned to
special Jobs for War Produc-
ton Board, Office Of Price Ad-
ministrotion, Board Of Eco
nomic Warfare and others.
One Job was to investigate the
costs, price. nd profits Of 81
furniture making companies,
to provide q basis for possible
price regulation. Another was
to study the bakery industry,
to see what uneconomic proc
tises might be eliminated to
save transportation facilities
through combined delivery op-
erotions. The biggest job for
was to check on the costs
Of producing iron and steel for
d e t e n s industries and to
up on the ALLEGATION Of
steel TO war production plants.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

staff for five years, he laid the
groundwork in an efficient,
trained army. Had more of his
ideas been accepted, III situation
would have been better today.
The selective service act was
passed with little credit to Mac
Arthur. But his 1888 report out
lined the provisions Of the act
practically as they were adopt
ed. The G.. H. @. Air Force,
mechanical divisions, co-opera-
ton of Army and Navy, even
a pay boost for his men a"e only
a few of the many other cases
Waldrop cites. The statue of
Macarthur increases still more.
II. G. is BACK
Insisting, with typical Wells
ian extravaganza, that the story
of Edward Albert Tewler is the
story of mankind the world
over, H. G.. Wells returns trium-
phantly to novel writing with
You Can't Be Too Careful" C.
p. Putnam's Sons: S2.5O).
That his lengthy excursion
into the realms of semi-science
has not dulled the Wells flair
for satire is amply evidenced in
this story of a disagreeably
commonplace Englishman whose
haunting fear of all "ideers'
leaves him ill-prepared to cope
with the problems of life-or
with heroism, when it is thrust
upon him.
The reader will not like Ed
ward Albert, whom Wells in
sists is all mankind. He will
find almost no one whom he does
like in you Can't Be Too
Careful" But he also will find
much of fun together with a full
quota of penetrating good sense
regarding such problems of liv-
ing as sex, marriage and a my
Rad of human relationships.
AID FOR SOUTH AMERICA
Good-neighbor Americans are
given a formula for winning
South Americas everlasting
friendship and cooperation in
Ambassadors in White, by
Charles Morrow Wilson (Holt:
$3.50.
Latin Americas public enemy
number one is neither Nazi nor
Nipponese," observes the author
1t is the insidious and ubiqui-
tous column of disease. The oper-
of this enemy are harder
to check and will continue to be
far more dangerous to us of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
WILLIAM +. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The American Contrao {
Bridge League recently con-
Quoted the Eastern States mixed
team-of-foutr championship for
the benefit Of its war in Mem
orial Hospital, New York, for the
treatment Of tumor and cancer
in children.
Fifteen Of the 30 Life Masters
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
% FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
MILkMAN'S DREAM

NEW YORK - All his life
Walter Ferentino wanted to be
a milkman and drive a horse.
Along about the time he got
a job delivering milk, the COM
pany switched to trucks.
For seven years he pinned
away for a horse, and then he
took the reins in his own hand,
so to speak, and now is the
proud owner of Sycamore Lady,
a tWo-year-old, which he pur-
chased at auction from the sta
bles Of Alfred Gwynne Wander
bilt.
The filly only cost him $50,
but Ferentino says he loves her
more than any old wagon horse.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
LIFT, PLEASE

OSWEGO, KAS.-Tt took an
auto WreCker to retrieve the
high-diving cow from Hubert
Rhodes farm.
The cow, grazing atop a so
foot bluff, was bumped by an
other and plunged to the river
below. Hoisted up again, she
walked away.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16

ARKANSAS CITY, KAS. -
The storm gave Ray Seeley, a
helping hand. Inspecting wind
storm damage at his farm he
found a hill Of potatoes, neatly
dug, with vine and tubers lying
intact on top Of the ground.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

be the VehicI for q token
bombing on the u. s.
The amazing energy Of Vice
President Henry A. Wallace
continues TO- ostound many
Washington people. He will
deliver q speech in New York
at night, hop q late sleeper
for Washington, and at 8 O.
clock the next morning, when
other guests at the Wordmon
Park hotel ore just wiping the
sleep from their eyes and look
ing out the window to see what
kind Of O doy it is, they will
see Henry playing his morning
set Of tennis.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-16
FIGHTING THE SEA WOLVES

In One respect Wle SGO'''G'"N ~N
uoion is the most serious battle OF m
war. And condidIy it is not q 0ottI
which America thus far can claim
be winning.
President Roosevelt q fortnight og
voiced confidence that the problem 0
protection against Axis submarines =
being solved" but he admitted thu
I'VE ore confronted with q serious short
ooe of ships to carry the essentials o
war" and that the submarines "hoW'
taken q heavy toll"
Thot toll continues undated
Within five days the United State:
Navy Department has announced the
loss of seventeen merchant vessels ir
the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf Of Mex,
leo or the Caribbean Sea, bringing the
total since the start Of the war to 239.
Besides ship and cargo nearly every one
Of these sinking has meant q loss Of
from one to forty men and q story Of
hardship for the survivors.
Ship construction is mounting at q
record pace both in America and in
Great Britain, but the United Stotes
now must make up for the lost ship
yord capacity Of many Of its smaller
allies, and apparently the launching
rote has not yet caught up with over
all losses.
In any event it would be O CHASTITY
business merely to try to feed new
merchant ships and crews into the NAV
Of the Axis faster than its submarines
could send them to the bottom. These
ships must be given protection by naval
octivity thot will sink the submarines
Or ct least take q toll Of them out Of
proportion to their successes against
Allied shipping.
AT present the most important
shipments are getting through. They
ore going by conveys, such as that
which lately arrived in Murmunsk
though not without some losses by air
attack. On other routes, to Britain,
Australia, and the Near Eost, the qoods
are being delivered with less moIesto-
ton. But still more cargo bottoms and
escort croft are needed, since equip
ment destined for foreign fronts is
pIllng up on American whorves. This
is the crucial aspect Of the battle; for
while mass production Of weapons is
now being achieved, there must be
mass delivery to give them military
effect.
While most available escort vessels
are seeing the conveys throuqh, the
supply Of patrol croft for home waters
and the guarding Of ordinary coastal
shipping is spread so thin as to afford
little 0 than token protection" In
q measure this loss is being consciously
taken as port Of the cost Of DELIVERING
men and materials to the front.
Some of the more informed pro-
.PosoIs for reducing that cost look to-
word the % production of small
surface petrol vessels, increased use Of
existing private boats for this purpose.
greater provision Of "boby bIimps" for
dir petrol work, more genuinely uni
fled operotionoI commands oIono the
coost, and more complete civilian COM
pIionce with dimout requests or reou-
lotions.
All these measures and probably
others should be pushed with utmost
sped and vieor. Eventually, air bomb